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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nameless" data-source="post: 1487293" data-attributes="member: 1543">Generally the classes are fairly balanced against each other. The abilities stay separate, but there are a handful of things I've found that can synergize and possibly be unbalancing. One that immediately comes to mind is the Arcane Strike feat from Complete Warrior. It's normally impossible to be a top-notch fighter and spellcaster at the same time, so you'll either have weak spells to burn and good fighting ability, or strong spells to burn and weak fighting ability. Other than the odd exception like that, one gestalt choice seems as balanced as the next.The thing that I believe your LA suggestion fails to take into account is the exponential power curve of D&D. Double the power of a level 7 isn't a level 14, it's a level 9 (according to CR, anyways). Someone with an LA is not at a constant disadvantage, the gap gets bigger as the levels get higher, which balances out the additive abilities in an LA.Finally, I suggest everyone who's curious takes a look at the XP table. For any particular level, look at how much XP is necessary. Then look at what level you can be with half that XP. If a gestalt character had to pay full xp for each separate class (a la 2E multiclassing), he'd end up between 2 and 5 levels behind a regular character. The UA says that it's between +1 and +2, and DMG says +2, and strict XP puts it somewhere between +2 and +5. +3 just feels right to me.</blockquote>

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