1. Are you forced into epic levels? Does a L20 fighter have to take epic L1 fighter with his next class level, or could he take plain-old L1 barbarian*? If he can take barbarian, does he get a level of "epic" barbarian or just "regular" barbarian?
2. What about someone who multiclassed? When a L6 ranger/L7 Barbarian/L7 fighter takes a level, does he take an "epic" level (probably epic ranger to avoid multiclass penalties), or a plain level in one of his three classes*?
*but using the epic save and attack bonus.

