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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pelenor" data-source="post: 1276860" data-attributes="member: 12130">Okay, First of all Meeplo thanks for clearing that up. This leads me down ye olde merry train of thought road. I'm going to continue to use the example Meeplo gave me to illistrate the point. a Wizard 10/Cleric 10 while being 20th level as a character has a caster level of only 10 as a Wizard or a Cleric. Now this problem is mitigated somewhat by the versatility this combination gives, especially when you consider that some abilities from one class could in theory be used to augment the abilities of the other class. But, the real question, is that versatility and mutual augmentation (to the extent that it may or may not exist YMMV) enough to offset the fact that this is a 20th level character with a character level of 10 in two classes (and thus smacking right against the SR problem amongst other possible problems)? One solution has already been proposed that I know of (not having seen Hong's solution I can't comment on it). Makeing the caster level equal to character level (I can't remember who suggested it sorry). I can already see some things about that solution that make me more than a little leary of suggesting that we use it. Let me illistrate what I'm going to try and say by example. Lets say we have Character A who is a Wizard 10/Cleric 10 and Character B who is a Wizard 15/Cleric 5. Now both of these are 20th level casters if we use the above suggested rule. One is obviously better at being a wizard than the other but they both have the same ability to penetrate SR with arcane spells (all else being equal of course). Now even though one can cast higher level wizards spells than the other the one with a lower wizard level can still penetrate SR with Arcane spells just as good as the other. That's the problem I have with this solution. I doubtless could manufacture other examples to prove the point but I think that is sufficient for the moment.</blockquote>

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