simple MM Q

[Magnus]

if i may interrup you regularly scheduled boards for a moment:

at what level does a Wizard 5/Sorceror 1 cast magic missile? i.e. if he casts his sorceror's MM, is it at 1st lvl, hence 1 missile? this seems to be the right answer, but i'm not really certain. help please?

 

[Geoff Watson]

He casts his Wizard spells at 5th level, and casts his Sorceror spells at 1st level.

Geoff.

 

[Mal Malenkirk]

The familiar powers stack but that's it.

It's not very efficient to multiclass as a wizard/sorcerer. What benefits did you (or your player) hope to gain?

 

[Caliban]

Yup, if he casts magic missile using a sorcerer spell slot, he only get's one missile.

If he prepares magic missile using one of his wizard spell slots, and then casts it, he get's 3 missiles.

 

[Crothian]

You do get a lot of lower level spells, but you have to know them as a Sorcerer and as a Wizard.

I had an NPC like this because he came from a verymagical family so he was born with magical abilites (Sorcerer), but then he went to a mage school to study and became a Wizard. Very cool character, the PCs where impressed by him alot.

 

[Magnus]

ooh, i rate a response by the great Caliban. i feel honoured!
thanks guys, 'preciate it

<edit>
Mal, i wasn't aiming for anything in particular. was just toying around with a few ideas, and i wasn't sure which way it went.

 

[shilsen]

It's not very efficient to multiclass as a wizard/sorcerer. What benefits did you (or your player) hope to gain?

I haven't seen this done in my group, but one advantage would be that a specialist wizard multiclassed with a single level of sorceror would be able to cast spells from his banned school from wands, scrolls, staffs, etc.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

I haven't seen this done in my group, but one advantage would be that a specialist wizard multiclassed with a single level of sorceror would be able to cast spells from his banned school from wands, scrolls, staffs, etc.

They actually recommend this very thing in Tome and Blood. Remember that this is just a single level, though, not true multiclassing in the sense of 10/10 or 15/5. Just the one level has certain advantages, after that it's like Mal says.

 

[Corwyn]

Forgive me my ignorance, but I thought that casterlevels stacked.
So that a wiz/sor 5/1 would be casting his spels as a 6th level caster...

Or does this only apply to other situations??

 

[Maudlin]

Forgive me my ignorance, but I thought that casterlevels stacked.
So that a wiz/sor 5/1 would be casting his spels as a 6th level caster...

Or does this only apply to other situations??

Some prestige classes allow caster levels to stack, but they mention it explicitly. That's the only case I know of, really.