Hello all, thanks for your time!
My current group is losing about 4 players, leaving us with 2 core members and 2 "on-off" members. Most likely we will have at max three players at a time.
I'm running Carrion Crown, and am thinking of making all PC's gestalt. Seems like it would really fix party balance, and give the PC's the extra oomph they need for the encounters.
My questions are what would you suggest for point buy, I am thinking bumping it up to 20 from our original 15. Secondly with NPCs, do you think the main ones should gestalt as well? Like BBEGs and such? And if you have done this before, I'd love to hear how it went for you!
Thanks everyone!
For player characters or anyone who's gestalt
If you run a full party as gestalt, then the main NPCs should also be gestalt. But since you'll be running a party of 2-3 at a time, it might not be necessary to make those changes (assuming your encounters are typically balanced for 4 players).
20 point buy is a good choice; many use that PB-value even for ordinary play. That value should allow players to gestalt classes that don't use the same main attribute(s) (15 might be too low to allow that).
I don't think restricting the second class to an NPC class is a good idea; that takes away most of the purpose of gestalting (which is to give the PCs more options than they'd otherwise have).