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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silveras" data-source="post: 1234328" data-attributes="member: 6271">They considered it and rejected it as too big a change. And, I disagree with you there. The change may be fine in your eyes, for your campaign. Looking at the big picture, it is not an answer that will work for all campaigns, and it will actually ruin some. There are balance issues when it comes to making such a subtle but profound change. With published adventures and setting materials, there are enormous shifts in power for the NPCs. For some campaign worlds, including mine, there is a fundamental separation between Divine and Arcane spellcasting. Letting those caster levels stack, except under very specific circumstances (a PrC class ability), violates that principle by implying that "they're really the same thing". The mechanics may be similar, but that does not mean the underlying "flavor" rationale is at all related, any more than saying that because attack rolls and skill checks are handled using the same mechanic they should also "stack". My point, at the moment, is not that the levels should not stack. My point is that making the levels stack is a bigger question than you are giving it credit, and I agree that it should *not* have been in 3.5. On that point, I think the designers tried to "do no harm", and made the right call. On the matter of Paladin's mounts, I may not agree with them, but that's another thread  <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=";)" /> .Personally, I believe that the number and effects of spells (caster level for purposes of damage dice, range, duration, etc.) should be (as it is) what suffers from multi-classing. I just don't think penetrating Spell Resistance or Saving Throw difficulties should be affected the same way. My proposed solution, which was admittedly not the best, was along the lines of:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Use Spellcraft ranks to set the save DC when casting a spell. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Use Spellcraft ranks rather than Caster level for SR and dispel checks.</li> </ul>The value is that characters can spend their skill points to keep their spells at "top form". Naturally, all spellcasters will want to max out Spellcraft, and that was criticized on the Wizards boards. I do not think it is such a bad thing, though, if a spellcaster has to decide between increasing Spellcraft or Concentration.</blockquote>

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