Do Hexcrafter & Witch levels stack for hex effectiveness?

[Jerald Schrimsher]

Do you stack hexcrafter (magus) levels and witch levels for the purpose of hex effectiveness? I can't find it anywhere, but I think it *should* be allowable. I can't see any way this could potentially break anything, or is there something I am missing?

[ShadowcatX]

I don't believe so. (Basing my assumption on a strict RAW reading which says nothing about them stacking and on the ruling of channel which states that the same ability from multiple sources doesn't stack.)

[wraithstrike]

They don't stack.

As an example evasion does not upgrade to improved evasion if two different classed have it, but uncanny dodge does.

[blahpers]

No, but I'd let it.

[Talandor]

Channeling does not, caster levels do not - I dont see how hex levels would.

PF is quite restrictive when it comes to multiclassing.

[StreamOfTheSky]

I'd allow it, they should stack. Might not let them start stacking till you had 4 levels into Hexcrafter and actually started getting hexes from it, though.

[blahpers]

I'd let channeling work too, and caster levels if they made sense. For most base classes, they don't, but I think a rakshasa PC taking levels in sorcerer should stack the rakshasa's CL 7 with those levels for spells known/spells per day (and maybe bloodline, if it's rakshasa).

[Deadmanwalking]

blahpers wrote:

but I think a rakshasa PC taking levels in sorcerer should stack the rakshasa's CL 7 with those levels for spells known/spells per day (and maybe bloodline, if it's rakshasa).

This is actually official. But only for monsters that explicitly get a CL as a particular class and only when taking levels in that class. So, yeah.

[Ganymede]

Little bit of thread necromancy, but...

If they don't stack... then what level of effectiveness do you use? Since the character can have hexes from multiple sources do you:

a) use the class for which the hex was gained as its own personal scaling determinator
b) use the higher of the two levels (e.g. 3 witch/10 hexcrafter would mean hexes cast as if you were a 10th level witch)

B seems more believable, especially considering the Extra Hex feat which gives the character the hex, not any particular class. (Honestly, this feels like a stronger argument that hexcrafter and witch levels should stack completely.)