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<blockquote data-quote="VelvetViolet" data-source="post: 6275128" data-attributes="member: 6686357">A while back someone noted that the racial classes from Arcana Evolved (and by extension the World of Warcraft roleplaying game and a couple others) wouldn't work in Pathfinder due to the way multiclassing works. A character who advanced in their racial class would be at a disadvantage because their normal class levels would be behind. The attempted solution was to replace the racial class with feats which were just heavily watered down versions of the racial class that wasted valuable feat slots.There's a simple solution for this: use the gestalt classing rules. A character with a racial class would advance in both that class and a standard class at the same time, using the best BAB and saves from either class at each level. To keep them &quot;balanced&quot; with characters who aren't gestalt, they'd divide their experience points equally between their two classes, so it would cost twice at much experience to reach the next level, which would keep them a manageable one or two levels behind the other party members.Gestalting can actually be used to replace the gimped multiclassing system entirely by having characters divide their experience between their classes like in AD&amp;D without having to sacrifice class features and only losing out on one or two levels compared to the other party members, which is roughly on par with what the mystic theurge and similar prestige classes deal with. Plus you don't have to resort to inventing an entire new class to represent martial spellcasters or whatever.Agree? Disagree? Alternate solutions?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="VelvetViolet, post: 6275128, member: 6686357"] A while back someone noted that the racial classes from Arcana Evolved (and by extension the World of Warcraft roleplaying game and a couple others) wouldn't work in Pathfinder due to the way multiclassing works. A character who advanced in their racial class would be at a disadvantage because their normal class levels would be behind. The attempted solution was to replace the racial class with feats which were just heavily watered down versions of the racial class that wasted valuable feat slots. There's a simple solution for this: use the gestalt classing rules. A character with a racial class would advance in both that class and a standard class at the same time, using the best BAB and saves from either class at each level. To keep them "balanced" with characters who aren't gestalt, they'd divide their experience points equally between their two classes, so it would cost twice at much experience to reach the next level, which would keep them a manageable one or two levels behind the other party members. Gestalting can actually be used to replace the gimped multiclassing system entirely by having characters divide their experience between their classes like in AD&D without having to sacrifice class features and only losing out on one or two levels compared to the other party members, which is roughly on par with what the mystic theurge and similar prestige classes deal with. Plus you don't have to resort to inventing an entire new class to represent martial spellcasters or whatever. Agree? Disagree? Alternate solutions? [/QUOTE]

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