Saves

[kirerellim]

I am ashamed to ask this... but I've always used heroforge when I made multiclass characters. So... how do you add saves? If I take a level of fighter, wizard, and rogue... would I have +2 to all saves?

[Nettlekid]

Yes, that is indeed how it works. Saves are additive. So if you have a Wizard 3/Rogue 2/Fighter 1, the Wizard levels give you +1/+1/+3, the Rogue levels give you +0/+3/+0, and the Fighter level gives you +2/+0/+0, so your total saves are +3/+4/+3.

BAB works the same way. However, multiclassing tends to bump up average saves because of that big potential +2 leap. Multiclassing tends to bump down BAB because you either get +1 or +0, and more often +0 than +1.

[kirerellim]

I see... thank you! That seemed like a big bump I just wanted to check lol

[drack]

Sometimes people use "fractional saves" though by which you add the fractions assuming linear growth. For instance if you get +1fort/2levels, assume in three levels you have 1.5 so when you get another .5 you'll have +2 rather then just getting the +1 and having to take 2 levels of the second class to make your way up to the extra +1.

(you can think of this as a variant of sorts, used to keep someone who takes five levels in different base classes with +2 to a save from having a +10 base save value)