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A [[Human]] or [[Half-Elf]]'s highest-level class is always considered his or her favored class for purposes of the multiclass penalty. |
A [[Human]] or [[Half-Elf]]'s highest-level class is always considered his or her favored class for purposes of the multiclass penalty. |
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+ | [[Human]] is not always the best choice to avoid an XP penalty: For example, a Human 2nd-level Fighter/8th-level Wizard/8th-level Rogue would suffer a -20% XP-penalty, a dwarf with the same class combination would not. |
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Revision as of 18:49, 12 September 2005
If a multiclass character's classes are not nearly the same level, then he suffers a multiclass penalty of -20% XP for each class that is not within 1 level of his most experienced class. These penalties apply from the moment the character adds a class or raises a class's level too high. For instance, a 4th-level Wizard/3rd-level Rogue gets no penalty, but if that character raises his Wizard level to 5th, then he'd receive the -20% penalty from that point on until his levels were nearly even again.
Races and Muticlass XP
A racially favored class does not count against the character for purposes of the -20% XP penalty. For instance, an 11th-level Gnome character (a 9th-level Rogue/2nd-level Wizard) suffers no XP penalty, because he has only one nonfavored class (Wizard is favored for Gnomes). Suppose he then achieves 12th level and adds a level of Fighter to his classes, becoming a 9th level Rogue/2nd-level Wizard/1st-level Fighter. He suffers a -20% XP penalty on future XP he earns, because his Fighter level is so much lower than his Rogue level.
A Dwarf 7th-level Fighter/2nd-level Cleric suffers no penalty, nor does he when he adds 1st-level Rogue to his classes since his Cleric and Rogue classes are only 1 level apart, and Fighter is a favored class for Dwarves.
A Human or Half-Elf's highest-level class is always considered his or her favored class for purposes of the multiclass penalty.
Human is not always the best choice to avoid an XP penalty: For example, a Human 2nd-level Fighter/8th-level Wizard/8th-level Rogue would suffer a -20% XP-penalty, a dwarf with the same class combination would not.