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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 824830" data-attributes="member: 5868">Personally, I'm pretty happy with the current balance of multi- versus single-classed casters.You shouldn't be able to have your cake and eat it too.  If you want diversity, you should be willing to pay teh price in focused power.  If you want focused power, you have to pay the price in diversity.  Heck, that's the principle behind specialist wizards.Sure the wiz10/clr10 is limited to 5th level spells, and has a harder time penetrating SR -- but in return he's got access to two full spell lists for those 5 spell levels, plus 10 levels of special abilities in each class.  He's got attack, support, and healing spells -- just not as individually powerful as his wiz20 or clr 20 companion.  Depending upon what you want to achieve, you could go wiz15/clr5 or wiz5/clr15 for a different balance.I'm not in favor of adjustments like the Mystic Theurge class -- I think it gives the multi-classed caster too much (why be a wiz 15/clr5 when I can get more with wiz5/clr5/MT10?).There's probably a happy balance in tradoffs -- what are the individual class special abilities worth?  How many caster levels are the wizard's bonus feats and familiar abilities worth?  If we could quantify that sort of thing, we could better figure out what the advantages/disadvantages are -- but I'm not sure how to go about that.</blockquote>