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Originally posted by Lord Brass:
Hmm, that sort of tallies with what little I can remember from reading the IWDII manual. Don't they have to be balanced in some way, by keeping them within one or two levels of each other, or suffer the penalties?
Of course, it would be mighty difficult with a drow or gnome-derivative character, as the "additional levels" seem a real crippling point even for a single class character.
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That's where 'favoured class' comes in. Essentially what favoured class does is cancel out the need to keep dual-class xp levels close. It does this by not 'counting' any levels you might have in your favoured class in regard to the level comparison. So if you are a lightfoot halfling, your favoured class is rogue, right? So, you could be a level 3 rogue and a level 15 fighter and you wouldn't suffer xp penalty as your favoured class means that your rogue levels don't count in terms of level comparison. The xp penalty counter would only consider you a level 15 fighter, as the 3 levels you have as a rogue get cancelled out as rogue is your favoured class. You get me? However, if you are a lightfoot halfling and have 3 levels in mage, and 15 in fighter, then you WOULD suffer xp penalty as you have two COUNTED (ie: non-favoured class) classes more than 2 levels apart. Get it? It's complicated, but easy once you know how it works.
But this should all be in the IWDII forum, not the IWD HoW one