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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scion" data-source="post: 1122783" data-attributes="member: 5777">ahh, but why does he have to fall so far behind in power? Really, it is a fine line and everyone will do something different about it. I know some groups that dont care what classes and levels you take, even if they horrible mangle the character to uselessness. Personally I feel that something, somewhere and somehow, should be done.I think that the mystic theurge actually works very well, lets take the theurge as an example then: wiz5/clr5/theurge10 = caster 15 for each, which is very close to what he gave above, and there have been several threads going through the power of the theurge that have said it may even be slightly under par as is. Which puts the cardinal in a very good light for his equation.As long as we restrict this added benefit to 'only' spellcasting ability I think it is perfectly fine. Your ftr10/brb10 already has a ton of abilties that stack, his 4 attacks per round tend to be better than 90% or more of the spellcasters spells as a straight caster anyway. (of course, if you go ftr8/brb12 then he's such a powerhouse compared to a straight wiz10/clrc10 it isnt even funny ;/  he'll make every save and kill the poor caster in one round of full attacking)Although, I have to admit that my reasoning is skewed, in my campaign I have eliminated all save or die spells. With that tossed in to the mix perhaps you would agree with me just a little more <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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