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I've often felt that there was something missing in Pathfinder's ability to combine classes through multiclassing, particularly when it comes to spellcasters. While it's not so hard to make an effective fighter/rogue, or dip a swashbuckler level on a ranger build, spellcasting classes suffer massively when forced to dip into another class for even a few levels. Hybrids like the Eldritch Knight or the Mystic Theurge have been forced to use Prestige Classes to achieve any kind of blending between classes which include any amount of spellcasting.
To address that discrepancy, I've come up with a new system I call Cross-Classing. I'm planning to run some playtest games using the system on the Play-by-Post forums here, but first I'd like to get some feedback on what people thought of the system. I'll be happy to answer any questions you have about the rules, though I hope I've made them as self-explanatory as possible.
I'd love it if you took a look and gave me your thoughts! Too powerful? Not powerful enough? Spot a particular class combo in my system that breaks the game? I'd love to hear it.
This is complicated. If you worked on clarifying the wording, it would still be complicated. While I completely agreed that spellcasters cannot multiclass as easily as non-spellcasters, I feel like there could be a simpler method of achieving it thematically, if not mechanically. Also, cutting the number of spell slots in half is pretty brutal. I would rather play a regular caster than suffer that.
What about a series of feats that allow a spellcaster to choose another class's spell list and then each time he or she gains level, he adds a couple of spells from that list to his or her own?