WhatGravitas
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I've thought about something:
Many say, there are some base roles (Arcane, Divine, Martial, Skills) in the D&D classes, right?
Many of the new base classes (Beguiler, Duskblade) are centered on a combination of these roles... but would it be possible to unify this stuff, without getting so many base classes? Hard... goes into Generic Classes, but then I got an idea:
Gestalt.
Essentially Gestalt allows you to combine two classes. What, if we would stat up each of the four roles as essentially underpowered classes, and then apply the Gestalt concept to gain normally balanced classes.
Like: Arcane class would have 1/4 BAB, and 1/2 Spellcasting progression, then Arcane/Arcane would have (1/4+1/4)= 1/4 BAB, and (1/2+1/2)= Full Arcane Spellcasting progression (making spellcasting dependant on you caster level).
A Martial/Martial would have (1/2+1/2) BAB = Full BAB, and would gain feats or something like this.
An Arcane/Martial would have (1/4+1/2)=3/4 BAB and 1/2 spellcasting... and so on.
The only problem I see is, that we would often have double-whammy levels, followed by "dead" levels, if Martial gives Fighter-like feats, then it would get 2 at once, then nothing, and so on.
What do you think about the general idea? Workable? Dumb? Nice? Stupid?
Many say, there are some base roles (Arcane, Divine, Martial, Skills) in the D&D classes, right?
Many of the new base classes (Beguiler, Duskblade) are centered on a combination of these roles... but would it be possible to unify this stuff, without getting so many base classes? Hard... goes into Generic Classes, but then I got an idea:
Gestalt.
Essentially Gestalt allows you to combine two classes. What, if we would stat up each of the four roles as essentially underpowered classes, and then apply the Gestalt concept to gain normally balanced classes.
Like: Arcane class would have 1/4 BAB, and 1/2 Spellcasting progression, then Arcane/Arcane would have (1/4+1/4)= 1/4 BAB, and (1/2+1/2)= Full Arcane Spellcasting progression (making spellcasting dependant on you caster level).
A Martial/Martial would have (1/2+1/2) BAB = Full BAB, and would gain feats or something like this.
An Arcane/Martial would have (1/4+1/2)=3/4 BAB and 1/2 spellcasting... and so on.
The only problem I see is, that we would often have double-whammy levels, followed by "dead" levels, if Martial gives Fighter-like feats, then it would get 2 at once, then nothing, and so on.
What do you think about the general idea? Workable? Dumb? Nice? Stupid?
