OT: D&D and multi-classing.

[Timstone]

I and a group of friends are currently playing 3.5, but we started out with 3.0. Our group is more into Hack 'n Slash, but we've had our fair share of in depth role playing. Once we had to navigate through a village (The DM designed this play himself to couter all the Hack 'n Slash we were used to) without even killing a mouse (No pun intended Narf). This was actually one of the better asignments we've had.
As to Hack 'n Slash, I enjoy that very much after all, what are you going to do when a huge dragon is in from of you?! Eliminate it!!! That's the whole purpose of the dragon in the quest, it has to DIE!! And what does Aragorn have to do when he's confronted by a cavetroll? Yes he has to kill it. He wouldn't survived when he had kindly asked the troll to back off and to leave. The troll either kills him of he kills the troll. No way around it.
Another group I was playing with focussed entirely on the personal issues of the characters, the real in depth role playing. Now that was boring, in my time with that group we encountered no more that 5 creatures. And all they could talk about was how great the group was busy with the enrafeling of the mystery that took place in the group. All they did was talking and moving from one stup[id conversation to another. Really it wasn't my cup of tea. One more fun thing of killing creatures is the treasure. That has been the biggest motive for players since the first D&D books came out. Even in movies the treasure is mostly the motive for the characters to set out on their grand quest. The badguys most frequently guard these treasures fiercely with the most awfull beasts they could find. Hence the love for killing foul creatures by the hundreds. All for the treasure and the glory that goes with it.

Oh and multiclassing is cool. Like Fyron pouinted out, you should only do it when you reach level 10 (minimum). Most of the time the requirements don't allow for a multiclassing to take place before level 10. I'm a wizard level 9, I plan to multiclass when I reach level 13. I would like to be a Planeshifter (well that's my choice for now because there will be a book out soon about plane related classes). I could multiclass right now (I have met all the requirements), but then I would miss a great deal of spells. The Planeshifter actually continues to give levels for my wizard. So I plannen that when I reach level 10 Planeshifter I would be a level 20 wizard. Above that you're in the epic levels. I haven't really taken a look at those levels.
Botomline is Fyron was right about multiclassing. You shouldn't do it before you reach at least level 10 and it has advantages when you reach the higher levels.