When your favored class is more than 2 levels different?
When your favored class is more than 2 levels different?
Thank God, no. No there isn't. It's not like it ever improved gameplay anyway by existing.
The rule did little more than limit a player's options. Limitations are one of the last things we need in a roleplaying game. The new favored class rule is a suitable replacement if you ask me.
No.
It's been replaced by favored class bonuses, which also limit a player's options but less so, since these bonuses are fairly minor compared to an experience penalty.
...which also limit a player's options...
Um...how so? *confused*
...which also limit a player's options...Um...how so? *confused*
It is a pretty strong inducement to stay in their original class.
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They now use the carrot, instead of the stick.
And the old way was often undermined, by the fact that Prestige Classes didn't count for comparing levels.
Why would a dwarf Rog3/Wiz5 be considered a schizophrenic charlatan, who cannot possibly be capable of holding such conflicting information in his head (and must also be held back in xp for attempting such a broken combination); yet a dwarf Rog3/Wiz4/ArcaneTrickster1 is totally fine?
No problem; nothing to see here, move along.
(Substitute any other multiclass combination of non-favored classes, and compare with a common PrC build)
It is a pretty strong inducement to stay in their original class....which also limit a player's options...Um...how so? *confused*
Yup, that whole hit point or skill point is pretty darned strong...
Yup, that whole hit point or skill point is pretty darned strong...It is a pretty strong inducement to stay in their original class....which also limit a player's options...Um...how so? *confused*
Well, given that several classes start at "2+Int bonus" it can be.
Um...how so? *confused*
The same way the old penalties did it. By making one option more interesting than the other.