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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 3147326" data-attributes="member: 13703">It's not necessarily the fact that they are a teenager as much as the fact that they go from zero to superhero in a very short period of time.  How is it that they spent all that time before in training without achieving much, then they go out adventuring for a year and suddenly they can take on the world.  It wouldn't matter if they were 17 or 27, why do the all of a sudden rocket up in relative skill?Multiclassing into a level of wizard is another example that cracks me up.  Order of the Stick had a very funny strip which pointed out this flaw.  Wizzie the Wizard spent years under the apprenticeship of a master wizards, learning the craft and the various nuances of spellcasting.  Bob the Barbarian decides to multiclass into Wizard and he picks it up in a couple of weeks!  Sure the GM can overrule the choice to multiclass but it's legal as per RAW.The longer lived races just make this whole thing even harder to swallow.  I can't remember what the starting ages for elves and dwarves are but it seems silly that they live for 100-plus years, slowly learning, bit by bit; they start adventuring an suddenly they're on this huge growth curve in learning!Like I said previously, how do you avoid this?  I don't know.   :\   So far I haven't seen a way to address this issue without making some big changes as to how the game is played.Olaf the Stout</blockquote>