Hello. I have never played D&D before, I've only played AD&D 1e and that was some time ago. How does Multiclass work? Every time I watch a video the guys zip through everything so fast I can get heads or tails of what's going on.
Basically I've never ever played a spell caster, only grunts and only one character class. Although AD&D allowed for humans to dual class, which was extremely limited.
Anyway my question: When you start to create the character to you Create both at 1st level at the same time or to you create one first and when he levels up to 2nd, you create the new at 1st?
Thanks. And at some point, I will have a question about slots and sorcery points, which didn't exist in AD&D except as spell levels and spells known/usable.
Chapter 6 of the Players Handbook covers all the ins and outs of Multiclassing. Basically, you only ever level up one class at a time. But every time you level up, you choose which class to take a level in. The upside to multiclassing is being able to combine abilities from different classes in interesting ways, or creating a unique character type that doesn't fit squarely within a single class. The downside is you postpone or eliminate access to higher-level abilities. For example, Fighters get a nice power boost at Level 5 with the Extra Attack ability. If you're a 4th-level Fighter and you level up by multiclassing into Barbarian, you'll get access to those 1st-level Barbarian abilities like Rage and Unarmored Defense, but you won't get Extra Attack until you take that 5th Fighter level. And multiclassing even just one level means you'll never get the Level 20 "captsone" ability from a class, since your total overall level max is still 20. There are also restrictions on which classes you can take together based on your ability scores. Basically, each class has one or more stats that have to be at least 13 for you to multiclass with them. That means you need to meet those minimums not just the class you're multiclassing into, but also your original class as well. As for how spellcasting works, that's a whole Thing, start with the chapter in the PHB and then come back with your questions :)
PS - the same info on Multiclassing from the PHB is also in the free Basic Rules, if you haven't bought the book yet
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Hello. I have never played D&D before, I've only played AD&D 1e and that was some time ago. How does Multiclass work? Every time I watch a video the guys zip through everything so fast I can get heads or tails of what's going on.
Basically I've never ever played a spell caster, only grunts and only one character class. Although AD&D allowed for humans to dual class, which was extremely limited.
Anyway my question: When you start to create the character to you Create both at 1st level at the same time or to you create one first and when he levels up to 2nd, you create the new at 1st?
Thanks. And at some point, I will have a question about slots and sorcery points, which didn't exist in AD&D except as spell levels and spells known/usable.
Chapter 6 of the Players Handbook covers all the ins and outs of Multiclassing. Basically, you only ever level up one class at a time. But every time you level up, you choose which class to take a level in. The upside to multiclassing is being able to combine abilities from different classes in interesting ways, or creating a unique character type that doesn't fit squarely within a single class. The downside is you postpone or eliminate access to higher-level abilities. For example, Fighters get a nice power boost at Level 5 with the Extra Attack ability. If you're a 4th-level Fighter and you level up by multiclassing into Barbarian, you'll get access to those 1st-level Barbarian abilities like Rage and Unarmored Defense, but you won't get Extra Attack until you take that 5th Fighter level. And multiclassing even just one level means you'll never get the Level 20 "captsone" ability from a class, since your total overall level max is still 20. There are also restrictions on which classes you can take together based on your ability scores. Basically, each class has one or more stats that have to be at least 13 for you to multiclass with them. That means you need to meet those minimums not just the class you're multiclassing into, but also your original class as well. As for how spellcasting works, that's a whole Thing, start with the chapter in the PHB and then come back with your questions :)
PS - the same info on Multiclassing from the PHB is also in the free Basic Rules, if you haven't bought the book yet