Gestalt characters in a normal game

[Dark Psion]

I think the key is in how they become a gestalt character. If anyone can do it, then it would be a gestalt campaign.

Some ideas:

The Seven Sisters: I was re-reading some of my Realms novels when I got UA, so I could easily see them as Gestalt characters. Imagine Storm as a 15 level Bard/ 5th level Harper Agent gestalted with 9th level Wizard/ 6th level Fighter/ 5th level Rogue.
So being "Chosen" by a god could grant a Gestalt, even if only a couple Cleric levels due to being faithfull.

In an old game, my thief touched a gem with the soul of a magic user and had to fight her for control of his mind. What if, after defeating her, he could Gestalt as a Sorcerer for as many levels as she had?

Possession by a ghost could result in a limited Gestalt due to residual memories. Also, the Ancestral Spirits of L5R might result in a temporary Gestalt while it aids you.

In the Ravenloft domain of Forlorn, anyone with red hair can gain access to Druid magic. This could be a form of Gestalt.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

I think the key is in how they become a gestalt character. If anyone can do it, then it would be a gestalt campaign.

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In an old game, my thief touched a gem with the soul of a magic user and had to fight her for control of his mind. What if, after defeating her, he could Gestalt as a Sorcerer for as many levels as she had?

I had an idea for a character once who came from a culture with an odd way of training powerful champions. Once they were old enough to have their magical (or psionic) potential judged, they had their soul split, with the majority of their mental capacity taken into an astral form and trained in the powers of the mind. Meanwhile their body (and the small bit of the soul reserved for that) was trained physically to be powerful warriors. When both were ready, the soul would be merged again, subsuming the warrior training as instinct and retaining all the training of the mind. My character idea was for a 'mistake' whose body had been left with a little to strong a soul and who resisted complete integration - she would be a multiple personality with different classes and stats for each aspect, who of course hated each other... However, the successful champions would definitly be gestalt characters, having managed to completely dedicate themselves to two different things in the amount of time a lucky person might normally master one or the other. (I'm thinking either sorcerer-fighters or sorcerer-monks, but psion gestalts would work well too.)

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