Mystic Theurge too good or not?

[LokiDR]

So, until you show that most feats that improve your lawyering abilities also improve your doctoring abilities, maybe your analogy isn't the best either? After all, we only have someone's off-the-cuff example to say that doctor = cleric and lawyer = wizard.

I'll agree that the analogy is flawed, perhaps baddly, but thinking of a person who pursues two highly technical fields shows how difficult a cleric/wizard should be. Doing both at once with the same skill as either one is just silly.

How do we know that it's not Physicist = cleric and mathematician = wizard? In fact, that would likely be a much closer example, because you can see that they would be affected by many of the same feats and skills...

...and I suspect there are a great many people with degrees in both fields.

Even your physicist/mathematician shows a strong side for bad multiclassing. A person with both degrees won't work in both fields at once. The math helps understand physics, not the other way around. Does wizardry really help you understand the gods?

 

[LokiDR]

In the Forgotten Realms ... yes, yes they are.

Note, you can have both teh above "yes" answers at once (just be from Kara-Tur, or possibly the Thesk / Shou Expatriate regions).

Well, problem solved. Just move MT to a Realms book and we can all be happy. I just find it funny that the current MT was proposed for the specialty cleric of Mystra but was turned down as broken by the playtesters.

 

[Mistwell]

I think a better analogy to the real world might be obtaining an MBA and a JD at the same time. The Law School I attended offered such a program. You could get either a JD or an MBA in 3 years, or both at the same time in 4 years. The schedule was less flexible and a bit longer, but took advantage of many overlapping disciplines between the two programs. It put your career behind by a year, but usually resulted in higher incomes and a wider choice of positions after graduation. In my mind, that is the Mystic Theurge.