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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 2760973" data-attributes="member: 2020">I'm sure they are.  Can you give me the link to Destiny's Tears?  I could see the Forgotten Realms slowly becoming a Gestalt Campaign World.  It would take time (hundreds of years at the least) and it would involve countless wars and massive upheavals of civilization, but it could happen.  Much like the IR (industrial revolution threads) it would represent a power escalation, an arms race, between the various races, as each in turn found 'the Secret' of Gestalt power (by quests, finding artifacts, going to other planes for research, finding some sort of lost magic from the Arcane Age, and so on.)  Certainly, Gestalt characters in a normal setting would be kicking everyone's butt.    But there would come a point where the Powers That Be took notice of this.  Everyone, their brother, and their father the lich would want the secret, and they would hunt the PCs like dogs, take them prisoner, and try to torture the secret of Gestalt out of them.  When that didn't work, evil wizards and clerics would use the PCs for 'research' and 'experimentation' purposes to find the secrets of Gestalt.  You know, though, Gestalt would enable your character to have more of those delicious feats.  And, after all, there are 2,000 official feats, and thousands more in d20.  With gestalt, you'd have a better crack at getting 'the good stuff' as it were.  Of course, the gestalt monsters would also have 'the good stuff' so those former wimpy 2E orcs would now be the Armaggedon Orcs from Unholy Hell (that is, they'd eat 1E and 2E drow for dinner and the illithid for dessert.)</blockquote>

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