Class XP Penalties

[loramin]

Originally Posted by sox7d [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think you're misinterpreting multi-classing and theurge-like prestige classes. A level 10 character that is 5 druid/5 fighter uses roughly as much exp as a lvl 15 character that is pure or prestiged.

At first when I read your post I thought you were bonkers because in 3.5 every time you level you pick a class. Which class you pick has nothing to do with the experience it took to get that level, so a 5 druid/5 fighter is definitely the same XP as any other level 10, not a level 15.

But then I remembered that 3.5 had two forms of "multi-classing": the way I just described, and then those wacky multi-class rules they introduced at the very end of the edition. I didn't realize that you were talking about those rules because you'd normally call that a 5th level fighter/druid, not a fighter 5/druid 5. But in any case, those were definitely closer to AD&D's multi-classing, as was the Mystic Theurge prestige class, because both give you a way to have a caster/something else, while not having to lose half your caster levels.

Still, my point remains: Everquest was based on a different edition of D&D, so you can't really compare your 3.5 5th level druid/fighter to an EQ ranger or an AD&D druid/fighter (among other things because there were no druid/fighters in AD&D).