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Originally Posted by Andrew Montgomery
I am playing a Conan-inspired Barbarian. I used the Fighter class as a template, and chose Athletics, Intimidate, and Streetwise as trained skills. I used my Feat selection to buy Skill Training in Thievery, rounding him out as a Fighter with thief training. So far, I have advanced only to 2nd level, and used my next Feat pick to gain access to Stealth.
The point is, the way the skill system works, in conjunction with Feats and the unified class/level table, you can still create multi-faceted characters. The only thing you can't really get access to are the Powers of other classes, until 11th level when you can choose to fully multi-class. It doesn't work the same as in 3e, or a true customization system like HERO or GURPS (which does this sort of thing better than D&D ever did), but you can still have characters more rounded than you think.
Hope this helps?
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Yes, actually, that does help. It seems 4e approaches customization differently, but it's interesting how they went about it. 3e sounds a bit simpler in the sense that you could just say, "I want a fighter 3, rogue 1" or some such, but it seems 4e focuses more on the powers and abilities themselves, which gets you the same effect.
As a D&D grognard myself, who still plays 1e as well as 3e (and Hackmaster, for that matter), 4e sounds interesting as a completely new game. It seems to have a powergamer thrust to it, which would be fun for those times when I just want to say to hell with social gaming and just kick some monster's rear end.
I have to admit, though, that the money is an issue. Shelling out another $100+ for another version of D&D really makes me pause, especially when I haven't nearly exhausted the potential in my current 3e material. I shouldn't complain, though, since Wizards produced more, high quality material for 3e in a 5-year span than most games produce in their entire lifetimes. Frankly, I don't know what else they could produce for 3e, short of just reinventing the whole game and starting over, which is what they did.