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4th Edition: Paragon Multi-Classing

September 10, 2008 by Bartoneus

Last Wednesday I took a more detailed look at heroic tier multi-classing in 4th Edition D&D, which included a fully multi-classed character at 10th level becoming roughly 2/3 primary class and 1/3 secondary class.  Quite a lot of discussion surfaced after last week’s post, but one interesting point was made that the power-swap feats feel […]

Filed Under: Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, D&D, d&d 4e, dnd, dnd 4e, dnd4e, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, epic tier, multi-classing, paragon tier

4th Edition: Playtest a Barbarian

September 4, 2008 by Bartoneus

Second Edit: See here for the Barbarian release, no fooling! Edit: It appears Wizards has removed this snippet from the Table of Contents, sorry everyone! The table of contents for Dragon #367 is up, and it looks like we’ll be getting an early look at the Barbarian class from the PHB 2 that won’t be […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, barbarian, D&D, dnd, dnd 4e, dragon magazine, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons

A Closer Look at 4th Edition Multi-Classing

September 3, 2008 by Bartoneus

I’ve heard over and over again, from various people, that they feel multi-classing in 4th Edition just isn’t worth it.  I even got to the point of asking several of the Wizards staffers if their current games (each staffer seems to be playing in several games of 4e) had any higher level multi-classed characters that […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, D&D, dnd 4e, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, multi-classing, multiclass

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