Prestige: Multiclass
The Multiclassing Prestige option allows you to gain levels in multiple classes. Doing so lets you mix the abilities of those classes to realize a character concept that might not be reflected in one of the standard class options.
With this rule, you have the option of gaining a level in a new class whenever you advance in level, instead of gaining a level in your current class. Your levels in all your classes are added together to determine your character level. For example, if you have three levels in wizard and two in fighter, you're a 5th-level character.
As you advance in levels, you might primarily remain a member of your original class with just a few levels in another class, or you might change course entirely, never looking back at the class you left behind. You might even start progressing in a third or fourth class. Compared to a single-class character of the same level, you'll sacrifice some focus in exchange for versatility.
Prestige
Multiclassing is a Prestige Class Option. It can be taken after character creation at any point when you would receive a Feat in place of taking a regular Feat. A character must meet the following prerequisites to do so:
- Your character must meet the ability score prerequisites for both your current class and your new one, as shown in the Multiclassing Prerequisites table. For example, a barbarian who decides to multiclass into the druid class must have both Strength and Wisdom scores of 15 or higher. Without the full training that a beginning character receives, you must be a quick study in your new class, having a natural aptitude that is reflected by higher-than-average ability scores.
- You can't already have another Prestige Class, unless it is this one. You can't take two different versions of the same class with this Prestige option.
Your DM might allow you to ignore one or more of these prerequisites, and may allow you to take this Prestige ancestry at 1st level.
Regardless of when you gain this class, its features add onto your base class's. If a feature is present on both the prestige class and the base class, you take the version of the feature in the prestige class, unless specified otherwise. If your DM allows you to gain more than one prestige class, you use the newest version of any feature it has that you previously gained.
After you choose this prestige, when you next level up, you gain 1 level in the desired class.
Table - Multiclassing Prerequisites
| Class | Ability Score Minimum |
|---|---|
| Artificer | Intelligence 15 |
| Barbarian | Strength 15 |
| Bard | Charisma 15 |
| Cleric | Wisdom 15 |
| Druid | Wisdom 15 |
| Fighter | Strength 15 |
| Investigator | Strength 15 or Dexterity 15, and Intelligence 15 |
| Monk | Dexterity 15 and Wisdom 15 |
| Mystic | Intelligence 15 |
| Oracle | Wisdom 15 |
| Paladin | Strength 15 and Charisma 15 |
| Ranger | Dexterity 15 |
| Rogue | Dexterity 15 |
| Sorcerer | Charisma 15 |
| Summoner | Charisma 15 |
| Warlock | Charisma 15 |
| Wizard | Intelligence 15 |
Multiclassing Features
Experience Points
The experience point cost to gain a level is always based on your total character level, as shown in the Character Advancement table, not your level in a particular class. So, if you are a cleric 6/fighter 1, you must gain enough XP to reach 8th level before you can take your second level as a fighter or your seventh level as a cleric.
Hit Points and Hit Dice
You gain the hit points from your new class as described for levels after 1st. You gain the 1st-level hit points for a class only when you are a 1st-level character.
You add together the Hit Dice granted by all your classes to form your pool of Hit Dice. If the Hit Dice are the same die type, you can simply pool them together. For example, both the fighter and the paladin have a d10, so if you are a paladin 5/fighter 5, you have ten d10 Hit Dice. If your classes give you Hit Dice of different types, keep track of them separately. If you are a paladin 5/cleric 5, for example, you have five d10 Hit Dice and five d8 Hit Dice.
Proficiency Bonus
Your proficiency bonus is always based on your total character level, not your level in a particular class. For example, if you are a fighter 3/rogue 2, you have the proficiency bonus of a 5th-level character, which is +3.
Proficiencies
When you gain your first level in a class other than your initial class, you gain only some of new class's starting proficiencies, as shown in the Multiclassing Proficiencies table.
Table - Multiclassing Proficiencies
| Class | Proficiencies |
|---|---|
| Artificer | Light armor, medium armor, shields, simple weapons |
| Barbarian | Shields, simple weapons, martial weapons |
| Bard | Light armor, one skill of your choice, one musical instrument of your choice |
| Cleric | Light armor, medium armor, shields |
| Druid | Light armor, medium armor, shields (druids will not wear armor or use shields made of metal) |
| Fighter | Light armor, medium armor, shields, simple weapons, martial weapons |
| Investigator | Light Armor, simple weapons |
| Monk | Simple weapons, shortswords |
| Mystic | Light armor, simple weapons, one skill from the class's skill list |
| Oracle | — |
| Paladin | Light armor, medium armor, shields, simple weapons, martial weapons |
| Ranger | Light armor, medium armor, shields, simple weapons, martial weapons, one skill from the class's skill list |
| Rogue | Light armor, one skill from the class's skill list, thieves' tools |
| Sorcerer | — |
| Summmoner | Light armor, simple weapons |
| Warlock | Light armor, simple weapons |
| Wizard | — |
Class Features
When you gain a new level in a class, you get its features for that level. You don't, however, receive the class's starting equipment, and a few features have additional rules when you take this Prestige option: Extra Attack, Unarmored Defense, and Spellcasting.
Extra Attack
If you gain the Extra Attack class feature from more than one of your classes, the features don't add together. You can't make more than two attacks with this feature unless it says you do (as the fighter's version of Extra Attack does). Similarly, the warlock's eldritch invocation Thirsting Blade doesn't give you additional attacks if you also have Extra Attack.
Unarmored Defense
If you already have the Unarmored Defense feature, you can't gain it again from another class.
Spellcasting
Your capacity for spellcasting depends partly on your combined levels in all your spellcasting classes and partly on your individual levels in those classes. Once you have the Spellcasting feature from more than one class, use the rules below. If you multiclass but have the Spellcasting feature from only one class, you follow the rules as described in that class.
Spells Prepared. You determine what spells you can prepare for each class individually, as if you were a single-classed member of that class.
Each spell you prepare is associated with one of your classes, and you use the spellcasting ability of that class when you cast the spell. Similarly, a spellcasting focus, such as a holy symbol, can be used only for the spells from the class associated with that focus.
Spell Slots. You determine your available spell slots by adding together all your levels in the bard, cleric, druid, oracle, sorcerer, and wizard classes, and half your levels (rounded down) in the artificer, paladin, and summoner classes. Use this total to determine your spell slots by consulting the Multiclass Spellcaster table.
If you have more than one spellcasting class, this table might give you spell slots of a level that is higher than the spells you know or can prepare. You can use those slots, but only to cast your lower-level spells. If a lower-level spell that you cast, like Burning Hands, has an enhanced effect when cast using a higher-level slot, you can use the enhanced effect, even though you don't have any spells of that higher level.
Pact Magic. If you have both the Spellcasting class feature and the Pact Magic class feature from the warlock class, you can use the spell slots you gain from the Pact Magic feature to cast spells you know or have prepared from classes with the Spellcasting class feature, and you can use the spell slots you gain from the Spellcasting class feature to cast warlock spells you know.
Spell slots you gain from Pact Magic can't be turned into Sorcery Points, or vice versa.
Table - Multiclass Spellcaster: Spell Slots per Spell Level
| Level | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — |
| 12 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — |
| 13 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| 14 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| 15 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 16 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 17 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 18 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 20 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |