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<blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 4454434" data-attributes="member: 7883">I like a lot of what both Ranger Wickett and Wulf suggest.....I like the idea of a spellcasting BAB....but I don't like Ranger's idea that a multiclass spellcaster only gets one pool of spell points, and all spells have to come from it.&nbsp; A Cleric 10/Wizard10, for instance, would seem to lose a lot.Wulf's suggestion seems to be very similar to the spellcasting method of the Magister from Arcana Unearthed...which in turn was similar to the Channeler in Spells and Magic, from 2nd Ed.My concern is that those two suggestions are greater departures from the standard, and might break the backwards compatibility limitations that have been set for Pathfinder.Personally, I was thinking more of something inspired by what FFG did with the spellcasting in Midnight.Basically, have the level at which a spell is cast, and spell power be determined by character level, rather than caster level.Thus, a Fighter 10/Wizard10 would cast spells as a lvl 20 Wizard.However, his choice of spells.....spells per day, maximum spell level etc. will be determined by his caster level.Maybe this could be combined with some kind of spellcasting BAB implementation that allows a multiclasser to cast spells of a higher lvl than determined by his caster level.&nbsp; Maybe it could be ability dependent....Like, say, a Fighter10/Wizard10 with INT of 15 gets the spells per day of a Wizard 12, while a Fighter10/Wizard10 with INT of 18 gets the spells per day of a Wizard 14.&nbsp; This part I'm not as sold on.....you don't necessarioly want a Fighter10/Wizard10 to be as good a spellcaster as a Wizard20.....while at the same time, the spells available to a Fighter10/Wizard10, if he's limited to lvl 5, are of very limited use to a character facing lvl 20 encounters.Banshee</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Banshee16, post: 4454434, member: 7883"] I like a lot of what both Ranger Wickett and Wulf suggest.....I like the idea of a spellcasting BAB....but I don't like Ranger's idea that a multiclass spellcaster only gets one pool of spell points, and all spells have to come from it. A Cleric 10/Wizard10, for instance, would seem to lose a lot. Wulf's suggestion seems to be very similar to the spellcasting method of the Magister from Arcana Unearthed...which in turn was similar to the Channeler in Spells and Magic, from 2nd Ed. My concern is that those two suggestions are greater departures from the standard, and might break the backwards compatibility limitations that have been set for Pathfinder. Personally, I was thinking more of something inspired by what FFG did with the spellcasting in Midnight. Basically, have the level at which a spell is cast, and spell power be determined by character level, rather than caster level. Thus, a Fighter 10/Wizard10 would cast spells as a lvl 20 Wizard. However, his choice of spells.....spells per day, maximum spell level etc. will be determined by his caster level. Maybe this could be combined with some kind of spellcasting BAB implementation that allows a multiclasser to cast spells of a higher lvl than determined by his caster level. Maybe it could be ability dependent.... Like, say, a Fighter10/Wizard10 with INT of 15 gets the spells per day of a Wizard 12, while a Fighter10/Wizard10 with INT of 18 gets the spells per day of a Wizard 14. This part I'm not as sold on.....you don't necessarioly want a Fighter10/Wizard10 to be as good a spellcaster as a Wizard20.....while at the same time, the spells available to a Fighter10/Wizard10, if he's limited to lvl 5, are of very limited use to a character facing lvl 20 encounters. Banshee [/QUOTE]

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