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pick up Unearthed Arcana...
I believe the context your asking about is here...
when a character has 2 classes that level up simultaniously, the rules are a little different than multiclassing, and it's really only a good idea if you have a very small party of adventurers(say 2 or 3 max)... hope this helps
game on
Check it out here:
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/gestaltCharacters.htm
Many people call it power gamery (and it is).
My group is trying it for the first time in the Shackled City Adventure Path. There are only 4 of them in an adventure designed for 6, so I figure I'd let them have some fun. For once there is no lack of rogues or spellcasters as we've faced in the past. Closest we get to a melee tank though, is an Urban Ranger / Ninja.
-c
My husband and I run a gestalt campaign for 2 characters (we take turns DMing, and we each have a gestalt character). I think it's actually a pretty good option for very small groups (only 2 or 3 players). You advance in two classes at once, but anything that you get from both classes, you only take the better of the two - so a Cleric/Wizard gestalt character gets the Cleric BAB, all good saves, d8s for hit dice, and both cleric and wizard spellcasting progressions (plus the assorted other class abilities).
It sounds awesomely overpowered, and it really isn't. Each character is about as good as a normal character of 2 levels higher (at least after the first couple of levels). Gestalt characters tend to have very good saves, so critters that rely on spell-like abilities that allow saving throws are a good bit weaker against a gestalt party than against a normal party. However, each gestalt character can still only take one set of actions per round, so if you have two gestalt characters against a mob of enemies, things can go ugly pretty quickly. For example, if one of the PCs goes down or gets Dominated or Confused, there goes half the party strength...
And what's transactional analysis roleplaying?
heh, the funny thing is that each and every D&D player must have a different answer to this question!
What does it mean to you?
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To Sebastian:
In the late 60's, there was a movenment among pyschologists, marriage counselers, et al called Transactional Analysis (sometimes refered to as Gestalt Counseling)--the general idea was that through role playing a series of unconnected scenarios, one could discover what were the root causes of troubled marriages, teenagers, anyone really. It's somehow connected to the book I'M OK, YOU'RE OK (which may well be the basis for the prevalence of cultural relativism in modern WASP society). My father spent a summer in San Francisco ('65 or '66) learning these techniques (which he praticed on my brother & I for several years). I dont remember who the guru of this movenment was; it may well be discredited by now. It was annoying in the extreme to be raised in this manner, though it may have been the origin of love affair with D & D.
footnote: this is my recollection of Gestalt Analysis (8-9 years old at the time) so I could be way off...
In the Gestalt system, how many experience points would a PC need to be a Fighter/Rogue with 4 levels in each class?
He would have the standard XP for a 4th level character. which, IIRC, is 6000 xp.
Read about it here:
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/gestaltCharacters.htm
You don't simply become a GESTALT character, it is a choice made for an entire campaign. Every player's character gets to choose TWO levels each time they level. From these two (Fighter & Rogue for example), they take the fighter hit die (d10), the rogue skill points (8 + int), both classes Class Skill List, the Fighter Base Attack Bonus, the higher of each classes Save Bonus (for first level, Fighter Fortitude +2 and Rogue Reflex +2), and the special qualities for both (at first level, Trapfinding, Bonus Feat, Sneak Attack +1d6).
Then you have a Rogue/Fighter 1 gestalt character. However, the GM needs to reduce the CR for each creature by 1, and by 2 if that creature relies on a saving throw-based attack primarily (b/c all of the PC's have better than normal saves). It also suggested that major NPC's get the Gestalt treatment.
I hope that helps, the link above takes you to the d20 srd, which reprints most of the OGL material from the core books and Unearthed Arcana (where Gestalt appeared first).
-c
