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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 2160107" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>What's the player's eventual conception? Does he primarily want to have a PC who casts powerful spells and does a little fighting on the side, or is mostly a fighter who does a little spell-casting on the side? Ideally, he should probably should be encouraged to think of the character in one of those two ways. </p><p>If he wants to play a primary caster, tell him that it's OK to invest in the fighting first, but also try to keep the fighter levels down to the absolute minimum that will allow him to qualify for the prestige class. Otherwise, the upper end of his spellcasting will be noticeably stunted compared to single-class casters of the same character level and some of the CR-appropriate monsters he may face (and their SR numbers). There are, of course, ways around some of that now (Practiced Spellcaster feat for one thing as well as Spell Penetration), but because spell-casting itself doesn't build in a multi-classing way like BAB and save bonuses do, he's well advised to keep in mind what level of spell-casting he wants to attain as he charts out his character's course.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 2160107, member: 3400"] What's the player's eventual conception? Does he primarily want to have a PC who casts powerful spells and does a little fighting on the side, or is mostly a fighter who does a little spell-casting on the side? Ideally, he should probably should be encouraged to think of the character in one of those two ways. If he wants to play a primary caster, tell him that it's OK to invest in the fighting first, but also try to keep the fighter levels down to the absolute minimum that will allow him to qualify for the prestige class. Otherwise, the upper end of his spellcasting will be noticeably stunted compared to single-class casters of the same character level and some of the CR-appropriate monsters he may face (and their SR numbers). There are, of course, ways around some of that now (Practiced Spellcaster feat for one thing as well as Spell Penetration), but because spell-casting itself doesn't build in a multi-classing way like BAB and save bonuses do, he's well advised to keep in mind what level of spell-casting he wants to attain as he charts out his character's course. [/QUOTE]
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