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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 6097184" data-attributes="member: 2804">Pathfinder has good flexibility when it comes to character creation, but is bad at ensuring minimum role competency.Since you are an experienced DM, there is a fix. Gestalt characters. Allow gestalt characters, but ban multi-classing to keep things simple. With gestalt, there really should be no need for multi-classing anyway. If you aren't familiar with the gestalt rules, every PC takes two classes simultaneously. They gain all the features of both classes and if a feature overlaps, such as Hit Dice, or saving throws, they choose the better option from both classes. You can read about it <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/gestaltCharacters.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.It does make PC's slightly tougher (but not as much as you would think), but the real advantage is the gain in broad competence the party gets. I ran the entire Rise of the Runelords campaign with five players all using 3.5 gestalt PCs allowing every WotC book, and never had an issue. But I'm also an experienced DM who knows how to manage the game well. I no longer DM Pathfinder, but if I did run it again, I would absolutely use gestalt rules again.Your next problem is one of the action economy being bogged down by too many players taking too long because they are managing too many characters. Unfortunately, I only see a couple of approaches. Limit your group size to about 3-4 PCs, 5 at the most. Or ban players from running multiple creatures.</blockquote>

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