D&D 2E Gestalt, the Half Elf, 2E, and You.

[gamecat]

Its a generally accepted concept: Half Elves suck. In 2E, 1/2 elves had the coolness of the triple multiclass.

In the broken madness of gestalt dungeons and dragons, would allowing half elves and half elves alone triple gestalt classes (advancing as a fighter, wizard, and rogue in emulation of the classic fighter/mage/thief) be worth the hit to balance for flavor?

I dunno. Wierd mood.

Here's where you come in.

 

[starwed]

Maybe it would work with an LA applied to the whole concept. Because either you care about balance, or you don't. But either way a triple gestalt just flat out isn't balanced. ^_^

 

[airwalkrr]

I seem to recall elves being capable of fighter/magic-user/thief. I don't think three classes was unique to the half-elf.

IMC, I use a multiclassing rule similar to gestalt and AD&D. But that has nothing to do with an advantage for half-elves. I give half-elves an extra skill point (which, in my skill system translates to roughly 1/2 skill point per level in 3e). Before I started using my new skill system, I gave half-elves 2 bonus skill points at 1st level and 1 bonus skill point every odd level thereafter.

 

[Will]

Gestalt, broken? Pshaw.

Triple classing it... hmm. Good question. A little, I think.

 

[gamecat]

Meh. Perhaps it's NPC territory.

Balance seems to become less important as the games become more casual.

 

[Notmousse]

As long as you're fine with the world being run by Half-Elves, I suppose it's ok.

But balanced, it's certainly not.

 

[CRGreathouse]

Perhaps you suggest this particular triple gestalt for half elves and normal (double) gestalt for everyone else? That could work, although it would be rather powerful.

 

[Will]

A triple gestalt is weird... many of the choices actually wouldn't be terribly more powerful than a regular gestalt. But there are exceptions (like a caster-caster-martial character... druid-barbarian-sorcerer? Ow.).

 

[glass]

I really like the idea, but I certainly think there might be balance issues. Maybe if we complete the homage-to-previous-editions and only have a specific list of allowed combinations, but even then.

What if the the third class had to be Warrior or Expert?


glass.

 

[glass]

druid-barbarian-sorcerer? Ow

Agreed. Druid:Barbarian is a already pretty nifty. Start adding True Strike into the mix and things get ugly.


glass.