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Originally Posted by Xandax But he indeed can, and does.
He has many more hitpoints so he can stand around longer while fumbeling off his new found spells, then a L1 Wizard can.
If his spell miss/fails, he can pick up his sword and give the monster a wack on the head instead of running away as the L1 would.
He would also likely not fight the same level monsters as the newfound Wizard would.
And so on.
His weight as a fighter is indeed there and being pushed around even as he tries to be a new Wizard.
That is why in my view that a character level, which is combined by class levels are a good idea.
Because the L6 character still has the experience of the former 5 levels, even when he tries to cast a magic missile as a (newly multiclassed) L1 Wizard. |
No, that's not true. Think about it. I'm going to use a cleric instead of a fighter because that illustrates the problem better.
Bob is a level 16 cleric. On level up, he can take level 17 cleric, getting 9th level spells, or take level 1 wizard, getting level 1 spells. One level gives 17th level class features, the other gives level 1 class features. Because level 17 characters are expected to have level 17 class features, and indeed, all the cleric's party members do have them, the cleric is behind in power, and subsequently can't pull his weight as a level 17 character if he takes the wizard level. (However, he still counts as one.)