"Mystic Theurge" for Cleric/Psion?

[Armadon63]

hhmmm psychic warrior + cleric would be pretty cool. might have to try this out sometime.

 

[Beckett]

Point taken. I am just not sure it is realistic or balanced...

My experience running for such a character:

A party of 6th level characters, including the wizard3/cleric3 who would soon advance as a mystic theurge. He had practiced spellcasting for both classes, so he was casting as a 6th level character, although he only had access to 2nd level spells.

The party ran into a rather large group of monsters. The battle that followed was quite difficult, resulting in a lot of damage to the party, as well as a character death. A single fireball would have made this an easy fight. A prayer could likewise have turned the tide. These spells were still two levels off for the character.

The mystic theurge is going to be a lot better than a basic multiclassed caster. However, he's going to be less powerful than a single classed caster; the additional spells don't make up for the lag on higher level spells.

 

[Garboshnik]

I don't think that anyone would argue that the MT is criminally weak at the low levels, particularly wiz3/cler3, the absolute rock bottom. To me, that alone makes the class broken. Of course, I also think they're too good at the top levels...

 

[Scharlata]

Hi!

[...] Is there one to allow progression of a Cleric and Psion, [...]?

Try the 6-level PrC Sanctified Mind from Lords of Madness, page 198+.

Enjoy!

 

[Bront]

You could tweek the Arcane Hirophant from Races of the Wild for a Psion/Druid, though the familiar companion won't work out quite as well (The Psi-crystal/companion?)