Gestalt Characters and BO9S

[GoodKingJayIII]

When using the Gestalt rules and combining two Bo9S classes -- say, Swordsage and Warblade -- what might be the best way to treat maneuvers known/readied and stances? Should a player take the best of the lists? Should the player treat those lists as separate (a sorcerer and wizard spell lists)? If we use the former interpretation, how does the character recover maneuvers? What if one of his classes is Crusader?

Initially I figured I'd use the better of the two lists and use access to different schools from both classes. But after giving it some thought, I'm more inclined to see each list as an integral class feature. So a Gestalt Swordsage/Warblade would have a list of maneuvers known/readied for both his classes. But I can see arguments going the other way as well.

Just curious about your thoughts.

 

[James McMurray]

They're seperate classes, and hence seperate lists.

 

[Storyteller01]

Sorcerer/clerics have both spell lists, and recover each classes respective spells via the class description. I'd imagine it works the same for Bo9S classes.

 

[blargney the second]

Yet another voice for separate lists of maneuvers known, readied, and recovered. How many stances could they have active though? Only one from all his stances known?
-blarg

 

[Kurotowa]

Yet another voice for separate lists of maneuvers known, readied, and recovered. How many stances could they have active though? Only one from all his stances known?

Only one. Stances aren't per class, the classes let you gain knowledge of stances. They all follow the rules for stances, one of which is you can only have one active at a time (20th level Warblades aside).

That's why IMO it's generally best not to combine two classes with abilities that take actions to use. Better to put in a passive class, like Rogue or Monk or Incarnate, to bolster the active class.

 

[blargney the second]

That makes sense.
-blarg