Multiclass?

lompo · Post by **lompo** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 4:05 am

In the 2nd ed. rules multiclassing was very effective, some of those characters were the most powerful (F/M, C/ranger, F/C, F/T, T/M etc.) expecially at high lev..
With the new rules it seems to me by your posts (I still havent got the game) that real multiclassing is not worthing anymore. Everybody seems to prefer a kind of flexible dual-classing (even with 3 classes), like a coupple of class of something and then continue with one straight class.
It is still usefull to have real multiclassing (like 5/5 F/T or F/M, or 4/3/3 F/M/T etc.) and wich combo's are still effective?

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 5:48 am

There isn't any multiclassing/dual classing dichotomy any longer. The option doesn't exist. When you start out, you choose one class per character, and every level they make from then on allows full choice of profession.

Do you have the game, @Lompo? No offense, but I'd be surprised at your reaction if you did.

BlackJesus666 · Post by **BlackJesus666** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 7:01 am

Actually he doesn´t have the game yet. As he writes (in brackets).

I take your role, fable, and tell everybody to always read posts carefully!

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fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 8:47 am

Originally posted by BlackJesus666
Actually he doesn´t have the game yet. As he writes (in brackets).

I take your role, fable, and tell everybody to always read posts carefully!

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Pleeeease. I have a dispensation monopoly card that allows me to ignore the contents of posts once a year while making replies. Surely you didn't think I'd do that without justification?

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 9:08 am

Just the once?

BlackJesus666 · Post by **BlackJesus666** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 9:17 am

Hehe, I guess he´s printing out those cards at home.

http://www.gamebanshee.com/forums/showt ... adid=19894

Sorry Fable, no offense

lompo · Post by **lompo** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 9:54 am

Originally posted by fable
There isn't any multiclassing/dual classing dichotomy any longer. The option doesn't exist. When you start out, you choose one class per character, and every level they make from then on allows full choice of profession.

Do you have the game, @Lompo? No offense, but I'd be surprised at your reaction if you did.

I don't have the game yet (I don't think if is on sale in Italy yet), but I understand how multiclassing is working.
My question is that by the post I read everybody is talking of doing characters singleclass with a small number of level in one or more other classes (ie. Fighter4/cleric xx, Ranger1/thiefxx that I consider flexible dualclasses), but nobody is talking of building characters with two or more classes of same level (ie. fighter8/thief8, thief8/mage8 etc. true multiclasses), is there a reason for that?
Maybe the new rules nerfed the potential of old fashion multiclass?

BlackJesus666 · Post by **BlackJesus666** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 10:34 am

Of course you can "real" multiclass as you say. It´s worth for a couple of combinations, but there are classes that are just great to improve your char by taking only one level.

eg: Sorcerer with a level of Paladin -> Chr Bonus to saving throws

Rogue with a level of Ranger -> free TwoWeapon Fighting while in light armour

Druid with a level of Barbarian -> free Rage ability, more HP, faster Movement

...

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 10:48 am

Originally posted by lompo
I don't have the game yet (I don't think if is on sale in Italy yet), but I understand how multiclassing is working.
My question is that by the post I read everybody is talking of doing characters singleclass with a small number of level in one or more other classes (ie. Fighter4/cleric xx, Ranger1/thiefxx that I consider flexible dualclasses), but nobody is talking of building characters with two or more classes of same level (ie. fighter8/thief8, thief8/mage8 etc. true multiclasses), is there a reason for that?

Oh, I see what you mean.

I know that I'm sticking pretty much to solo classes+with one or two levels of a second class. Most classes gain from this concentration: fighters continue to bring in more feats; wizards, sorcs and clerics get more spells. Thieves really don't stand to gain much after level 21 or so, IMO, however, so I'm planning to slip in a few levels of fighter, there.

Originally posted by Gruntboy
Just the once?

As Sulieman the Magnificent is reported to have said once to the Venetian ambassadors, "Pfftpfftpfftpfft."

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 11:40 am

Originally posted by BlackJesus666
Hehe, I guess he´s printing out those cards at home.

I got my card out of a Cracker Jacks box and it entitles me to one screw up per month at GameBanshee plus a free car wash with a full tank of gas at E-Z-Go.

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 12:16 pm

Your lousy fake cards are worth nothing in this forum HLD.

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 12:33 pm

::waves hand hypnotically in front of Gruntboy::
You will accept the High Lord's Special Exemption Cards™ on your forum.

baileyatbrats · Post by **baileyatbrats** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 1:00 pm

I took fable's original question to mean: "Are they really selling the game in Italy yet?" To which the answer was, "No." or in Itlain, "No."

I will advise that there are certain draw backs to multi-classing as proscribed here most of the time. One has to have a character who's favored class is one of the ones you choose. So if you're human or half elf you're cool. Otherwise you need to be careful about which classes you choose.
If you're okay with a teifling rogue, cliched as that is, then you're fine. If you want a teifling fighter/sorcerer, he or she will need to progress in even step for each class.

As an example, my Barbarian monk chose the "the old order" as his domain. He is allowed to multiclass to rogue. (Can't pick locks to save his life though.) Since the prefered class for half orc is, not surprisingly, Barbarian (it's unfair really)he was getting a 20% xp penalty for two levels becuase I advanced him up to third level in monk before I added rogue. things are better now, but he does need to progress evenly.

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 1:04 pm

Originally posted by baileyatbrats
I took fable's original question to mean: "Are they really selling the game in Italy yet?"

Not my question, Lompo's. Here, have a monopoly card.

baileyatbrats · Post by **baileyatbrats** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 1:19 pm

Did you not write: "Do you have the game, @Lompo? No offense, but I'd be surprised at your reaction if you did."

I beleive that was the question that drew comment.

That'll be three turns in jail, bub.

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 3:02 pm

Then he should have been clearer. And I'm not moving off Boardwalk.

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Fri Oct 04, 2002 1:08 pm

Alright ladies, break it up.

@HLD, knock yourself out mate. Run riot.

baileyatbrats · Post by **baileyatbrats** » Fri Oct 04, 2002 1:40 pm

*Mmmph. Mm. grrr. mmph.*
That silence spell seems to be working, Gruntboy.