Why can't we retrain classes?

[willuwontu]

I find it both annoying and dumb that you can't retrain your class. This and the lack of traditional multiclassing kills off builds.

How retraining classes helps:

For instance if I want to be a rogue who slowly changed into a wizard, I could start off by taking the wizard multiclass archetype feats, and then retrain into a full-blow wizard, maybe with the rogue multiclass feats to represent my change form a rogue to a wizard.

[Alyran]

I think retraining of classes needs to be possible so that a mid-life change of profession becomes possible.

Perhaps there would need to be some kind of a penalty such as XP loss or going a level back in addition to time spent so that people don't do it all the time, but I really feel strongly that it should be possible. Switching from Wizard/Fighter to Fighter/Wizard should be possible over the length of a years-long career.

[willuwontu]

Alyran wrote:

I think retraining of classes needs to be possible so that a mid-life change of profession becomes possible.

Perhaps there would need to be some kind of a penalty such as XP loss or going a level back in addition to time spent so that people don't do it all the time, but I really feel strongly that it should be possible. Switching from Wizard/Fighter to Fighter/Wizard should be possible over the length of a years-long career.

Or, you know, it takes a year of downtime, so while possible, it's definitely not easy or convenient.

[Alyran]

willuwontu wrote:

Alyran wrote:

I think retraining of classes needs to be possible so that a mid-life change of profession becomes possible.

Perhaps there would need to be some kind of a penalty such as XP loss or going a level back in addition to time spent so that people don't do it all the time, but I really feel strongly that it should be possible. Switching from Wizard/Fighter to Fighter/Wizard should be possible over the length of a years-long career.

Or, you know, it takes a year of downtime, so while possible, it's definitely not easy or convenient.

Yeah, I just want it to be possible with a high opportunity cost.