I still feel RM has one of the best class and level system implementations for that reason.
By the time you got all the 2e Companions there was something crazy like 50 classes, too. Pretty much every imaginable niche had a class or three (one per type of magic) covering it.
By the time you got all the 2e Companions there was something crazy like 50 classes, too. Pretty much every imaginable niche had a class or three (one per type of magic) covering it.