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I don't see why half-dwarves would be something weird. Just don't call them muls, and give them their own flavor - probably pretty similar to the half-elf, but perhaps reticent instead of diplomatic in the face of racism.

Have you blogged or posted more about this elsewhere? Don't wanna derail the thread, but do wanna hear more.

DUDE! That's pretty much my old build from the 3.5 WotC forums! I love you. Thanks for still calling it "Sacrilegious Fist" so that I could stumble across it on Google. And I apologize for the thread necro, but I am just way too happy to see my build gained a life of its own and still floating...

What do you feel is gained by using this system? In what way do you intend to affect the players? How do players respond to it in practice?

Do we get a Flail Expertise yet?

Even if that's not the OP's intent, that's pretty awesome. Please don't delete or change it, beyond minor tweaks and filling in the blanks - make any serious revisions in a new post, pretty please. :)

You gain ALL the class features of both classes. Yes, this can get really broken, and your character will be left behind if you don’t take advantage of it. Enjoy sneak attacking with your twin strike, or whatever suits your fancy. Gestalt was always a high-powered, munchkin-oriented system, and...

Another thing you could try would be DC adjustments based not on the spell's absolute level, but on the spell's relative level. I'm not necessarily recommending this, as I haven't even playtested your first system yet, but I wanna throw it out there. For a max-level caster, 7th-level spells...

Makes the wizard have to worry a lot less about which spells to prepare. Just grab one of each awesome spell and go to town. If that factor remained unchanged, then to start with, I'd cut the number of spells prepared by a large number - half (round down) sounds good. After playtesting that...

The half-orc is an odd thing. I understand they're trying to play up the "half human = versatile!" thing, but... Half-orcs were the ONLY Strength-stat race in the 3.5 PHB. Nowadays there's nothing stopping a half-elf from being just as strong, or stronger in some cases. There's still no race in...

When my group members were like "Man, our party sure needs a cleric" and they stared at me expectantly, I rolled up driving a Worldthought Medic. Ever since 4e demonstrated that there can (and should!) be solid alternatives to a cleric being part of every freaking adventuring party, I've tried...

To me, it seems like it'd really be easy to increase in power such that demogorgon and orcus and so on are no longer challenges - they're only a few levels beyond 30, and can be taken on by a rested, ready party of such characters!

Hagga... wha... bwuh?! This question is relevant to your campaign and your party?!?! I may need to look into this. There's one player who always wants to become a lich or a demigod or something. Usually the other players get their way, but it might be fun to give this character the power...

Extremely comprehensive 3.5 list, for folks whose DM allows 3.5 spells. http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19863658/No_Somatic_Component_Spell_List

If you did throw out the self-heal entirely, I'd drop the fire vuln, too. But who says your race can't have that power uniquely? Racial "balance" is a subjective affair. Goliaths wield crazybig weapons. Gith and kalashtar have scaling racial powers. Gnomes get cantrips without having to be a...

Hooray psionics! I thought that Pathfinder had banished the idea of LA? However, I could see your race being reasonable with a little bit of LA on it. I think the reason people take issue with your healing power is that it scales exponentially, whereas hit points scale in a generally-linear...

I always felt like a bit of a jerk, with my 3.5 swordsage, gallivanting about the battlefield as I pleased while everyone else had to actually take the enemy positions into account. Playing in a PF game and DMing another, my experience has been that tumblers occasionally get hit. It rarely ruins...

There's a pretty cool 3.5 supplement I own, somewhere with items that have hidden "drawbacks" that your PDF reminds me of. The items in the other guy's work are rather interesting, though the pages of flavor text describing them are a little over the top. Each item basically describes how it was...

I liked the wizards of the sun and moon a lot, from Unearthed Arcana. Applying it across the board was a little too much work - wizards are already an exercise in bookkeeping. But it was good mechanic that retained the wizard mechanic (must thoughtfully learn and then prepare spells in advance)...

The pathfinder conversion guide glosses over a lot. When I converted the Dark Sun "mul" to Pathfinder, it was more useful to simply use existing core races as a guideline than it was to waste time reading the conversion guide. Now I'm looking at converting Dreamscarred Press's "Worldthought...