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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 2935732" data-attributes="member: 35788">To be fair to the people who are lifting it up as a problem, I don't believe they want a multiclassed caster to be magically on par with a straight up caster.  But they don't want their to be such an obvious disparity, either.I really liked Hermanne the Wise's assertion using the MM rules.  A fighter 5/wizard 5 is really probably an ECL 7 or 8.  Even if you think multiclassing is fine the way it is (like I do) you have to agree that walking down two divergent paths does significantly impact one's abilities and effectiveness.  They want the fighter 5/wizard 5 to be an ECL 10 in game terms but not on casting par with the wizard 10 or on fighting par with the fighter 10.  Make sense?So it isn't like they want the multiclassed character to have the same access to spells.  That'd be more like a gestalt set-up.  They just want the character to be effective with what they get.Me - I think that the fact that the character's power level does drop significantly is a sigal to the player that it may not be a good idea no matter how cool the fighter/mage concept is.  I'm happy with saying it is a cool idea but bad mechanically speaking and therefore not doing it except through PrCs like the EK.  Others aren't quite so easy to let it go.</blockquote>