Gestalt in non Gestalt world

[dagger]

Can anyone think of a decent story line why the PC's would be Gestalt in a campaign (FR for instance), when no one (NPC) else is....?

I could always go the 'chosen ones' route, but that is kind of been over done.

 

[DaveMage]

In my current campaign we're doing this, with the premise being that the gestalt characters were created as part of a wizard's experiments - kind of a merging of two humans (or elves) into one. One creature gets the best of both and the other basically becomes a vegetable.

It has had some interesting moral dilemmas for us as PCs - although we began the campaign not knowing our history (we began with our memories very sporadic and have spend a great deal of the campaign figuing out who we are).

 

[Pyrex]

In the game I'm running right now, the PC's are part of the "special forces" branch of a large mercenary company.

As such, they recieve "extra training" and gestalt their primary class with Fighter.

 

[Furtive Noise]

Honestly, I don't think you need a specific reason unless you want to use one. Characters in game are not necessarily identified as their stats. In character, how would someone tell a rogue/sorceror from a gestalt r/s? Its just defining abstractions. PC's are already powerful compared to the rest of the world, gestalt pc's even more so.

 

[dagger]

Thanks for the quick replies and the good ideas! Anyone else got any?

 

[Will]

Give gestalt classes a +2 LA, and have it represent uncommon training.

Also helps balance them with NPCs and such.

 

[The Grackle]

I'm starting a campaign where the PCs are gestalt classes and NPCs(or at least most of them) are not.

The reasons:
A. Because the PCs are the heroes
B. The DM wasn't to spend 8 hours making every NPC

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Maybe the Gestalt characters are holdovers from a lost era, when heroes were heroes, who were somehow transported to an era which has lost its "magic."

 

[dagger]

Page 4 bump!

 

[Stormborn]

I have toyed with starting a campaign in which the PCs were gestault characters. Simply put they would be young gods in training, sent out into the world to not only learn about those that may one day be their worshippers but to solidifiy their natures. Their parents/patron gods chose them and put them together. They may not like each other, they may not want to do this, but the High Gods have decreed it be so. And so there they are. You can rationalize that they were stripped of many of their powers as part of the educational experianc and are thus left only slightly better than average, or else give them some additional abilites and a LA.