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Originally Posted by Tricky  It's extremely unattractive to multiclass non-humans in the OC. The XP penalty for being a Drow that has three other classes on the slide has to be huge. I wouldn't expect to come anywhere near 30 character levels.
I don't know. Maybe I will take another look at this tomorrow. Then again, I already have too much. |
Its not bad, and pretty easy to work with.
1. "base" classes incur a penalty of 20% XP per class thats "out of level".
2. this penalty only starts when one class is *more* than one level from another base class.
3. it only continues as base classes are added and are "out of level".
4. Prestige classes do not count.
5. Favored classes do not count.
6. For humans and half-elves the higher class doesn't count.
For instance a Drow Warlock/Blackguard can have the Blackguard levels placed anywhere in the build you want and because of #4 you won't incur a penalty.
A Drow Favored Soul/Wizard can have either class placed anywhere in the build and because of #5 (Drow's favored class is Wizard) you won't incur a penalty.
A Drow Favored Soul 27/Warlock 1/ Monk 1/ Cleric 1 can have any of the classes in any particular combination and because of #2 won't incur a penalty.
Specifically with my suggestions:
A Favored Soul 20+/ Warlock 1/ FB 5/ Blackguard 2+ will not incur any penalty regardless of race because of #2 and #4.
The HITMAN with Fighter 22/Ranger 2/SD 1/FB 5 - will not incur any penalty *WITH* an Earth Gensai, but it would with a Drow. That Drow-based penalty however could effectively be negated by having your final level as a Ranger (..with that final level as Ranger as the starting point for the penalty). In other words that build, (excepting attribute limitations of other races), could in fact be built exactly as its stated with *ANY* race and really not suffer a penalty.