I would like to reply to Jimbo's post about magical weapons and why someone specilized in, say a long-bow, cannot hit a creature immune to +3 and below.....it too bothers me that this is the case, but I look at it like this.......say you have a plate of glass and you are trying to break it by throwing sponges at it. You are the best sponge thrower in the world, but no matter how many sponges you throw you cannot break the glass. But you pick up a stone and **SHATTER** the glass breaks. It is not the ability to 'hit' the monster, it is the protection that the monster has. You are hitting it "what I hit..to no effect", but not damaging it.
As for the weapon proficiency of multi-class characters, I have to agree with Charlie.....I don't buy the fact that b/c you are multi-class you cannot specialize in a weapon. If you are a fighter/mage you are not restricted by the number of spells you can memorize or the level of spell you can reach....if you are a thief you are not restricted to the number of thieving points you can assign....a cleric the same as mage.....a bard.....If a fighter/thief(mage/cleric) gains enough XP to gain that extra proficiency then why can't he/she use it to specialize? That is the advantage of a fighter over other classes, the ability to specialize in weapons...if you take this away you are taking away what it means to be a fighter....you are stripping the fighter of their identity.
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