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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 4443204" data-attributes="member: 3400">I'm not quite ready to give up on the task yet.I've been batting around the idea of multiclassing spellcasters requiring the use of a generic or "scratch" prestige class or at least the rump of one. I don't think we really need to do this for fighter-types very much since the abilities tend to stack much more nicely.Maybe there should be a couple of options: full BAB+spellcaster combinations, mid BAB+spellcaster combinations, and multiple spellcaster combinations. Each option would list the BAB and additional spellcaster level schedules appropriate for the combination. A full BAB/spellcaster combo would give up a couple levels of spellcasting over the course of the character's career, keep the full BAB. Mid BAB/spellcaster would keep regular speed for both. Multiple spellcaster would allow both spellcasting classes to advance in full, perhaps even at the BAB of the lower of the two (though higher might not be bad). Any special features of a class would be picked up level by level by the prestige class, the PC picking which class to get the next one from as long as they all follow in the same order, none being skipped, of the original classes.A character would be able to qualify for the prestige class after 1 full level in each class.That's my quick brainstorm, anyway.But something needs to be given up to balance the increased ability. I don't think it has to be a 1-1 loss of ability since everything is still being channeled through the character's single set of actions (compared to 2 single class characters with the same class levels).I'm not a big fan of ECL issues, particularly adding them later in the character's career. They work best for balancing low-level characters but, I believe, tend to become increasing irrelevant as characters grow in power as each benefit given by whatever adds the ECL becomes a smaller proportion of the whole character.Plus, this ultimately means that a multiclass character falls further and further behind his single class peers.</blockquote>

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