Storm Raven
First Post
DungeonMaster said:No he isn't. If you have more money you can afford items like metamagic rods of quicken.
Saying "the Mystic Theurge can spend thousands of gold pieces on something the single classed caster doesn't need to help make up the difference in their abilities" doesn't really help your argument. All things being equal, the non-MT won't have to drain his cash resources to obtein the same effect that the MT can get by buying expensive theings, and thus will be able to buy other things, or even the same things, and end up ahead of the MT.
[And at many points it's irrelevant as survival is more important. Whether you cast one spell or 2 is largely irrelevant when the dragon breaths on you and you need protection from energy on, or in the case of the cohort + leader both need it on.
And this is a problem because? Are you both likely to get caught in lots of the same AoE spells? I find that parties facing AoE capable opponents tend to spread out and minimize their multiple exposure. Having an extra body is always more helpful than not.
It's still out of your own cash.
No, it's not. Effectively, if the cohort has their own item creation capabilities, then you get the items he makes for half the cost you would have otherwise paid.
One way or another you're splitting up resources not the least of which is XP. You're trying to compare groups with disparate XP levels.
Someone hasn't read the 3.5e rules very well. Go back and brush up on them, then come back with an actual argument.
It's not effectively twice the hp if you're targeted with an area-effect.
"I can come up with a corner case that usually doesn't make much difference". Gosh, you are convincing.
It likewise doesn't mean anything if you're targeted with a save-or-die - what matters is your save and the MT will have a better save than the single-class characters guaranteed from both multiclassing and better overall gear.
And the MT has better overall gear because? Oh, right, he's spent several thousand gold on metamagic rods of quicken, so he has lots less money to boost his saves than the single-classed character. Your argument simply doesn't wash.
The MT can do things like contingency:heal, which isn't a parlor trick.
When he's 14th level. His single classed buddy has been able to cast one or the other of those spells for three levels now. I'm sure he's very impressed that the MT has finally caught up.
And the MT can take leadership too you know - and get another MT.
Some one who can cast spells four] (or five) levels below the ability of the single classed caster. How useful!