Couple dumb questions about "Favored Class"

[Broley9339]

1 What's Favored Class? I know, I read the whole paragraph several times, but I just don't get it. Is this a sort of Dual Class thing?

2 It says Each character begins play with a single favored class of
his choosing—typically, this is the same class as the one
he chooses at 1st level.. So does this mean when I'm rolling a 1st level Fighter I can make his favored class a rogue? Or is it a fighter/fighter? wth?

3 It say Whenever a character gains a level
in his favored class So wait, how is exp handled differently for the favored class? Half and Half?

4 How does any of this play out with the primary class?

[Oladon]

Whoa... hang on. You're way overcomplicating favored classes.

A favored class is just a class that you pick at first level; it can be any class. Whenever you gain a level in that class, you get to pick a favored class bonus.

It doesn't change your experience needed to level, or... anything else, really.

[Mauril]

Your favored class isn't a extra class, it's just the selection of a class that you might take levels in. When you take levels in that class, you get a little bonus.

For example, Elsiron is my newest character. I plan to make him a wizard, so I'm going to choose his favored class as wizard. This means, every time Elsiron gains a level of wizard, he gets to choose his favored class bonus. If you are playing with just the core book, this means Elsiron can choose to add an extra skill point or hit point when he levels up.

Let's say, at level 5, Elsiron decides that he wants to take a level of fighter. (Maybe Elsiron wants to be an eldritch knight.) At this level, Elsiron does not get to gain his favored class bonus because he didn't take a level of wizard.

You may select a favored class of whatever base class you like. If Elsiron was only going to take a few levels of wizard and then a whole bunch of levels of fighter, it might be better for him to take fighter as his favored class, and just lose out on the bonus for the first few levels. The only reason to take a favored class that isn't you first level class is if you plan to multiclass later and take more levels of a second class.

Does that make sense?