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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pax" data-source="post: 890290" data-attributes="member: 6875">And it's entirely workable, too.  As you say, you onlylose 1 point of BAB from beign a pure fighter, barbarian, ranger, or so on.  You get various abilities, stopped at clear breakpoints for each of the classes -- a couple feat bonusses from fighter, stacking uncanny dodge from barbariana nd rogue, +2d6 sneak from rogue, fast movement and rage from barbarian ...Okay, I do think the 3 ranger levels are semiwasted, I'd've gone Ranger(1) and added two levels to either Fighter or Rogue, but that's just me.Not just those 9th level spells; you can stop at getting 8th level spells and be passably good (Wizard(15)/Fighter(5) isn't a crippled spellcaster; hampered yes, crippled no).  Which is why some prestige classes -- like Blood Magus, which only gives 5 caster levels -- are still viable.  Wizard(10)/Blood Magus(10) has 15 caster levels ... barely 8th levelspells.  But the blood magus' abilities more than make up for a few caster levels, and one spell level.  IMO, anyway.It's when folks multiclass core spellcasting classes that they run into trouble.  Mystic Theurge will at least make a divine/arcane hybrid potentially workable, though some consider it overpowered (and let's not continue down that sidetrack, please!  been there, done that, BEAT that undead horse for far too long already ...).</blockquote>