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<blockquote data-quote="Aus_Snow" data-source="post: 4934810" data-attributes="member: 29112">Indeed. . .<a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/gestaltCharacters.htm" target="_blank">Gestalt Characters</a> is a totally optional variant system of levelling up for PCs (and perhaps NPCs, if the DM so decrees) - an alternative that does nothing to change multiclassing per se, rather than being interchangeable with it. Most 3e campaigns in the world, note, will *not* be using gestalt rules.Basically, gestalt is a bit like dual-classing from earlier editions of D&amp;D (e.g., AD&amp;D 1e). Not the same, but yeah, the resemblance is there.As for Fighter 10 / Rogue 10 being so powerful. . . no. Not really. Try Rogue 20, and you'd be better off most of the time (Sneak Attack +10d6? Yum!) Seriously. For that matter, Fighter needs some kind of mid- and high-level boosts, otherwise straight Fighter (or, in fact, anything over Fighter 4) sucks, compared with many other (but not all. . .) classes.If you want advice about powerful mutliclass combos, try the WotC char-op boards, if they're still up and running. Or, start specific threads on that, right here.Multiclassing in general is pretty wonky. Spellcaster + non-spellcaster is kinda broken, and not in a good way. And so on. But you mightn't be wanting to hear about all that. . .</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aus_Snow, post: 4934810, member: 29112"] Indeed. . . [url=http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/gestaltCharacters.htm]Gestalt Characters[/url] is a [I]totally optional[/I] variant system of levelling up for PCs (and perhaps NPCs, if the DM so decrees) - an alternative that does nothing to change multiclassing per se, rather than being interchangeable with it. Most 3e campaigns in the world, note, will *not* be using gestalt rules. Basically, gestalt is [U]a bit[/U] like dual-classing from earlier editions of D&D (e.g., AD&D 1e). Not the same, but yeah, the resemblance is there. As for Fighter 10 / Rogue 10 being so powerful. . . no. Not really. Try Rogue 20, and you'd be better off most of the time (Sneak Attack +10d6? Yum!) Seriously. For that matter, Fighter needs some kind of mid- and high-level boosts, otherwise straight Fighter (or, in fact, anything over Fighter 4) [I]sucks[/I], compared with many other (but not all. . .) classes. If you want advice about powerful mutliclass combos, try the WotC char-op boards, if they're still up and running. Or, start specific threads on that, right here. Multiclassing in general is pretty wonky. Spellcaster + non-spellcaster is kinda broken, and not in a good way. And so on. But you mightn't be wanting to hear about all that. . . [/QUOTE]

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