D&D General What is the most ludicrous multiclassed monstrosity that you've actually played?

[James Gasik]

Back in 2e after the Complete Bard's HB was released it allowed Bards to multiclass properly. I created a half-elven Ranger/Bard that truly could do pretty much anything to some extent. The ranger class gave access to wilderness abilities, limited druid spells, fighter combat abilities, and the Move Silently and Hide in Shadows thief abilities. Bard gave wizard spells, the Climb Walls, Detect Noise, Pick Pockets, and Read Languages thief abilities (so the only thing I couldn't do was Pick Locks and Disable Traps), and a great suite of social and support options. I was the 6th member of a well rounded group (A Dwarf Fighter/Cleric, Human Mage, Elven Priest, Human Fighter, and a Gnome Thief). We ended up going through the Temple of Elemental Evil, the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, and a few home brewed adventures.

"Multiclass properly" is subject to debate, or so I was told when I played my Gnome Illusionist/Professor.

 

[Blue Orange]

lol. That 'democracy in action' line freaking slayed me for some reason. Was there an election in the episode, or is it just a straight up non sequitur?

There's no election, it's more of a non sequitur. There's a bit of a class dynamic between the two groups of vampires and werewolves, but the joke is more that they're all turning into the same thing.

The Real Ghostbusters introduced me to the Cthulhu Mythos, and had a couple of episodes written by J. Michael Straczynski--I suspect it's an underappreciated influence on nerd culture.

In terms of official content, someone ought to give a shout-out to early oWoD's Samuel Haight, a Kinfolk Skin Dancer (quasi-werewolf who kills werewolves to gain changing ability) ex-ghoul (mortal drinking Vampire blood) Mage... who eventually got Soulforged into an ashtray (Wraith).

 

[James Gasik]

Ah yes, Skinner, who was single handedly responsible for a shift in how they wrote the games, so you couldn't be a Kinfolk Kinain Ghoul Gypsy Cyborg Mummy Mage with 19 points of Demonic Investments...no wait, maybe you could...

Well at least you can't be a Vampire Werewolf! Er...

Well something that was broken was assuredly written out as an option, I'm positive!

 

[Richards]

I had a player in a 3.5 campaign running an elven ranger/cleric/sorcerer/arcane archer.

Johnathan

 

[the Jester]

Currently playing a storm cleric 3/diviner wizard 3/fighter 1. I guess some folks would consider it a monstrosity because it's so MAD.

 

[billd91]

1e multiclassing with 3 classes was a slow growth rate - elven fighter/magic-user/thief.
But the most convoluted was a 1e bard with the weird dual classing - fighter 7, thief 8, bard 14. Truckloads of hit points.

 

[Horwath]

Oh wow I forgot about those... we playtested it only 1 time (then 1 DM let a player make the dumbest one ever in a later high level campaign when there power house character died)
I don't remebmer all 6 characters in playtest game but I was a Warlock/Spelltheif and we made it to like 7ish level I think I know we had a Warblade/Wizard as well. I can't remember what our cleric gestalted with at all...

dumbe one... we were level 19 and in the end game when our wizard/loremaster/arcmage died to a single failed save... his new character was a gestalt/multiclassed swordsage/rogue 12 wizard/cleric 3 mystictheurg/master of nine 4 but he came in with a +6 holy defender short sword and a +5 flaming burst icyburst keen defender short sword... BUT he was a hobgoblin and rolled like the worst stats ever... even when we gave his character someones belt of Magnificence +4 (since they took his old characters +6 one that was also a belt of battle and a belt of healing) only his wis hit 20 and most of his stats were lower then everyone elses...

edit... maybe it didn't hit 20 with the belt, maybe it hit 19 and one of us wished him a 20 in game...so long ago but trying to remember. the mystic thuerge/master of 9 part is fresh in my mind...as were the two broken swords that didn't really overpower him in a game full of casters...

edit 2 we were all throwing around 7th or higher (more then half of us 9th) level spells at that point so his character even gestalt was WAY less OP then us and we DID hit epic but only for 1 level (campaign ended at 21st...technicly at end DM SAID we would have just hit 22nd so some people updated for there dead character folders)

Gestalt works, but it needs some limitation.

Pick your two classes, no further multiclassing, no prestige classing.

 

[Ancalagon]

My MC has always been fairly conservative - I think the "wildest" I did was an eldrich knight 3/hexblade 5

 

[Li Shenron]

A multiclass Samurai/Shugenja in Rokugan.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

someone ought to give a shout-out to early oWoD's Samuel Haight, a Kinfolk Skin Dancer (quasi-werewolf who kills werewolves to gain changing ability) ex-ghoul (mortal drinking Vampire blood) Mage... who eventually got Soulforged into an ashtray (Wraith).

Samuel Haight must die...