Drakevarg
2017-09-28, 07:41 PM
My intent with my current E6 campaign is to allow for continual broadening of skillset while curbing raw power by using gestalt rules. However, one thing that's occurred to me that I haven't seen specific rules for (since E6 doesn't have rules for Gestalting and Gestalt rules seem to assume you're doing it from the start) is how to handle multiclassing.
Now, I've always liked multiclassing; "no multiclassing penalties" is such a basic houserule of mine I sometimes forget multiclassing penalties even exist by RAW. But in the case of a gestalt campaign, my question is thus: should gestalting be handled as a wraparound of the 6-level span E6 occurs in (for example, a Ranger 4/Barbarian 2 taking another level in Barbarian becomes Ranger 4/Barbarian 2//Barbarian 1) or to avoid that getting too confusing, should gestalting happen in parallel: which is to say, the first level of a class ALWAYS goes on the first HD, the second level on the second HD, etc. This approach seems like it'd be a lot less paperwork, but has the downside of making it so multiclassing characters trade off magnitude for breadth. Which might be a good thing, might not be.
I'm not exactly sure how to handle it, myself, so I thought I'd get the forum's opinion on the matter.
Now, I've always liked multiclassing; "no multiclassing penalties" is such a basic houserule of mine I sometimes forget multiclassing penalties even exist by RAW. But in the case of a gestalt campaign, my question is thus: should gestalting be handled as a wraparound of the 6-level span E6 occurs in (for example, a Ranger 4/Barbarian 2 taking another level in Barbarian becomes Ranger 4/Barbarian 2//Barbarian 1) or to avoid that getting too confusing, should gestalting happen in parallel: which is to say, the first level of a class ALWAYS goes on the first HD, the second level on the second HD, etc. This approach seems like it'd be a lot less paperwork, but has the downside of making it so multiclassing characters trade off magnitude for breadth. Which might be a good thing, might not be.
I'm not exactly sure how to handle it, myself, so I thought I'd get the forum's opinion on the matter.