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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9521806" data-attributes="member: 6877472">I mean, yeah, I know, but it was still a big shift from "only humans can be Paladins" to "well, actually other race/species can be Paladins, just not the ones in the PHB" lol.And Miltiades is/was human, just undead at the time- like I said, it was less about the actuality of what was going on than how it felt to my younger self."If an Orog can be a Paladin, why not a Half-Elf?  Or a Halfling?" being the sort of question I started asking myself.  And it turns out I wasn't alone, oddball characters started popping up in the D&D games I was playing at the time as well.  I then branched out to other games without that sort of "humancentric" focus, and by the time I came back to D&D, with 3e, race/class locking was a thing of the past.**Which I viewed as a great thing, but I know that there is some contention about it.  One friend of mine claims it makes race/class less "special" when anyone can be a Paladin and you don't need a random 17 somewhere to do it.  And that you could no longer have classes that were "just better" than others.Flash forward to today, and people are still arguing that some classes are better than others, lol.But I guess I should let this tangent drop, it's not really what the thread is about, lol.----Back to multiclass prerequisites, I'm not even sure why they still exist.  On the one hand, most people who want to enter another class are probably already going to have good ability scores for that class.And they don't even make sense in some cases- you don't need a high Intelligence to be a Wizard anymore, for example.  A guy I played with in Adventure League had an Orc Eldritch Knight with an Intelligence of 10 (Volo's Orc, with the -2 Int no less).  Once he got to level 7, he decided he'd be better served switching to a full caster class- but he couldn't become a Wizard, despite already being able to cast Wizard spells, without a higher Intelligence!Luckily, someone had a Headband of Intellect they'd picked up in a mod, and a deal was struck, but it still seems like a very odd situation to be in.</blockquote>

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