Thought Experiment / Campaign Idea (Gestalt)

[atemu1234]

I just thought of something. In a world where everything is Gestalted with Wizard, and people who go straight wizard get double the Spells/Day, what is going to be the most powerful, between the possible combinations?

[Divide by Zero]

Double Wizard is pretty much always going to be weaker than Wizard/Psion or Wizard/Archivist, probably Wizard/Artificer as well. Throw in Wizard/any divine caster if the Academic Priest feat is allowed, and maybe even if it isn't. Wizard/Factotum is going to be stronger in a single encounter, but ironically could make better use of the extra spell slots. Wizard/skillmonkey will have more endurance outside of combat since you can more easily solve problems without spells (but see below). Depending on how you define "powerful," Wizard/any martial class is going to be harder to kill and more threatening up close outside of high-op builds.

More generally, most gestalt combinations with the slightest bit of synergy will beat double Wizard, unless you have some way of preventing the 15-minute adventuring day - it's extremely unlikely that a wizard will need more than their usual number of spell slots in a single encounter, and they have plenty of tricks to escape and rest after blowing it all.