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Attack Bonuses & Multiple Attacks?

Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:55 am
by vorpal_rabbit
The new party I just started is almost all multi-classed, even my tank. This leads me to wonder how the game determines base attack bonuses, and when you start getting multiple attacks, if you have more than one class.

Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:32 am
by Wrath-Of-Egg
Just advance playing and you will get those attacks.. there is nothing to worry about..

But i am sure that some called SILVERDRAGON will soon give us some information about that matter..

Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:18 pm
by Mirk
BAB is added across the different classes:

fighter 4 / wizard 1 / rogue 3 will have BAB of: 4+0+2=6.

it will actually be +6/+1, as another attack is added after every +5.

Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 3:36 pm
by sdwillie
The manual has a section on "Multiclass Characters" which can be found if you look in the 'index'. Find this, go to the page and look down about 1 inch.

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:50 am
by silverdragon72
[QUOTE=Wrath-Of-Egg]Just advance playing and you will get those attacks.. there is nothing to worry about..

But i am sure that some called SILVERDRAGON will soon give us some information about that matter..[/QUOTE]


...sorry for being late ;)

...but was on a business trip last week...


generally it's quite simple - you can calculate your BAB based on the levels you have in each class and then just add them!


so a fighter 4 - rogue 3 - wiz 7 would have the following BAB calculation:


- fighter 4: each level +1 > BAB +4 (same for all other fighter based classes)

- rogue 3: for every 4 levels you get +1 BAB for each level beside of the first one > BAB +2 (same for bard, cleric & druid)

- wizard 7: for every 2nd level +1 BAB > BAB +3 (same for sorc)


this is a total of BAB +9


generally you start with one attack and get a 2nd one with BAB 6 and every 5 afterwards you get another additional attack - so with BAB 9 you would get:

2 attacks - the 1st one with a BAB 9 and a 2nd attack with a BAB 4


but this is capped at a maximum of 4 attacks via BAB !

you can get one additional attack in three ways:

- haste
- 2 weapon fighting
- an item with "speed" effect

but you can only get a maximum of five attacks - even if you have a BAB 30, 2WF, haste and a speed item you are capped at 5 attacks per round!

...btw. 2WF has the best BAB for the 5th attack in almost every case!


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