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PERSONAJES GESTALT
In this
high-powered campaign variant, characters essentially take two
classes at every level, choosing the best aspects of each. The
process is similar to multiclassing, except that characters gain
the full benefits of each class at each level. if the two classes
you choose have aspects that overlap (such as Hit Dice, attack
progression, saves, and class features common to more than one
class), you choose the better aspect. The gestalt character
retains all aspects that don’t overlap.
La variante de carácter gestáltico es particularmente efectiva si tener tres o menos jugadores en tu grupo, o si tus jugadores Disfruta de la multiclase y quieres personajes con personajes verdaderamente prodigiosos Poderes. Esta variante solo funciona si todos los PC de la campaña utilizan y da como resultado personajes complicados que pueden abrumar Jugadores nuevos con una gran cantidad de opciones.
Construyendo Gestalt Caracteres
To make a 1st-level gestalt character, choose two Clases estándar. (Usted También puede elegir cualquiera de las clases variantes de este libro, aunque No se pueden combinar dos versiones de la misma clase). Construye tu de acuerdo con las siguientes pautas.
Golpe Dado
Choose the larger Hit Die. A monk/sorcerer would use d8 as her Hit Die and have 8 hit points (plus Constitution modifier) at 1st level, for example.Bonificación de ataque base
Choose the better progression from the two classes.Tirada de salvación de base Bonos
For each save bonus, choose the better progression from the two classes. For example, a 1st-level gestalt fighter/wizard would have base saving throw bonuses of Fortitude +2, Reflex +0, Will +2 — taking the good Fortitude save from the fighter class and the good Will save from the wizard class.Habilidades de clase
Take the number of skill points gained per level from whichever class grants more skill points, and consider any skill on either class list as a class skill for the gestalt character. For example, a gestalt barbarian/bard would gain skill points per level equal to 6 + Int modifier (and have four times this amount at 1st level), and can purchase skills from both the barbarian and bard lists as class skills.Características de la clase
A gestalt character gains the class features of both classes. A 1st-level gestalt rogue/cleric, for example, gets chivato atacar +1d6, Búsqueda de trampas, 1st-level clérigo Hechizos, and the ability to Dar la vuelta o reprender no-muerto. Class- and ability-based restrictions (such as arcane spell failure chance and a druid's prohibition on wearing metal armor) apply normally to a gestalt character, no matter what the other class is.Un personaje gestáltico sigue un procedimiento similar cuando alcanza el 2º y siguientes niveles. Cada vez que gana un nuevo nivel, elige dos clases, toma los mejores aspectos de cada una, y los aplica a sus características. Se aplican algunas advertencias, sin embargo.
- Class features that two classes share (such as Esquiva extraña) se acumulan al ritmo de la clase más rápida.
- Los personajes de la Gestalt con más de una clase de lanzamiento de hechizos mantienen Realice un seguimiento de sus hechizos por día por separado.
- A gestalt character can't combine two prestige classes at any level, although it's okay to combine a prestige class and a regular class. Prestige classes that are essentially class combinations - such as the Embaucador arcano, Teurgo místico, and Eldritch caballero - should be prohibited if you’re using gestalt classes, because they unduly complicate the game balance of what’s already a high-powered variant. Because it’s possible for gestalt characters to qualify for prestige classes earlier than normal, the game master is entirely justified in toughening the prerequisites of a prestige class so it's available only after 5th level, even for gestalt characters.
COMBINACIONES GESTALT
Because the player of a gestalt character chooses two classes at every level, the possibilities for gestalt characters are almost limitless. The following combinations are particularly potent.Bárbaro/Bardo
The "barbarian" has two choices in a battle: use a mix of party-aiding spells and attacks, or rage and use inspirational music to urge the rest of the party on as he attacks. Only the bardic music abilities that actually require a Realizar check (such as countersong and fascinate) are off limits during a rage. Neither barbarians nor bards wear heavy armor, so gear selection is straightforward.Bárbaro/Mago
The barbarian brings that d12 Hit Die to the table, and that’s almost all that matters to the fragile wizard. A good Fortitude save is sure to save the gestalt character's hide a few times, and a high-Intelligence character benefits greatly from the union of two disparate class skill lists. And as a bonus, you're literate at 1st level. The only downside? You can't cast spells in a rage. This combination deliberately tweaks the stereotypes of both classes, so you'll want to spend some time thinking about your character's backstory.Clérigo/Hechicero
This gestalt combination is effectively the mystic theurge prestige class on steroids. You can load up on combat spells as a sorcerer, then prepare utility and protective spells as a cleric - which you can always spontaneously cast as healing spells if you like. As a side benefit, your high Charisma helps both your arcane spellcasting and your ability to turn undead.Druida/Guardabosques
With the ranger's base attack bonus, you'll be a more effective combatant when you wild shape into a predator. The extra skills of a ranger are welcome, and if you choose the archery combat style, you'll be ready for both ranged combat and an up-close fight in wild shape form.Luchador/Ranger
If you like feats, this is the class for you. Most fighters must choose whether to split their feats between melee and ranged combat or emphasize one kind of attack at the expense of the other. The fighter/ranger can have it both ways, relying on the fighter bonus feats to improve melee attacks and the ranger's combat style, improved combat style, and combat style mastery to pick up three good archery feats.Luchador/Pícaro
Every rogue likes to get behind the enemy and dish out sneak attack damage. With this gestalt combination, that trick gets even better because you have the hit points and Armor Class to survive toe-to-toe with the enemy, you'll hit more often, and you get more attacks, which just means more chances to pick up a fistful of d6s. You can wear heavy armor, but you'll degrade some of your better skills and you'll lose access to evasion.Monje/Clérigo
You'll probably give up your armor, but you can run around the battlefield in a blur, healing your comrades and putting the hurt on the bad guys with such combinations as stunning fist with an infligir graves heridas spell attached. Once you draw up your new character, note how many great cleric spells have a range of touch. The same Wisdom score that drives your spellcasting also improves your Armor Class.Monje/Hechicero y Monje/Mago
With three good saves, more hit points, and the best unarmored Armor Class, the monk covers up many of the weak points of the sorcerer or wizard. The only downside is that the important ability scores for sorcerers and wizards — Charisma and Intelligence — are the two ability scores that the monk cares least about. This can be a tough combination to pull off, especially if you’re using point-based ability score generation.Paladín/Hechicero
Charisma does the heavy lifting for this gestalt combination. Why? Two words: divine grace. Like all sorcerers, you'll send your Charisma score into the stratosphere with the every-four-levels improvement and the best cloak of Charisma you can afford. Every time you get more spells, your saving throws improve as well. The downside? You can't wear armor like most paladins.Hechicero/Mago
Unlike most gestalt characters, your hit points, Armor Class, base attack bonus, and saving throws aren't any better than a standard sorcerer or wizard. But oh, the spells you can cast! Unlike a standard arcane spellcaster, you can afford to use your highest-level spells in most of your serious fights. It's a good idea to use your sorcerer slots on combat spells (such as the ubiquitous bola de fuego) and the occasional defense or utility spell (perhaps Armadura de mago or prisa). Then you can use your wizard slots for spells that are great against specific foes (such as despido) o salvavidas en situaciones específicas (forma gaseosa). You can gamble a little more with your wizard spell selection because you know you have all those useful sorcerer spells backing you up.Equilibrando la Gestalt Caracteres
Obviously, this variant results in characters who are significantly more powerful than is standard. But how much more powerful? The simple answer - that gestalt characters are twice as powerful as standard characters — isn't accurate. Gestalt characters don't have an advantage in the most important game currency: available actions. Even a character who can fight like a barbarian and cast spells like a sorcerer can't do both in the same round. A gestalt character can't be in two places at once as two separate characters can be. Gestalt characters who try to fulfill two party roles (melee fighter and spellcaster, for example) find they must split their feat choices, ability score improvements, and gear selection between their two functions.Si bien un personaje gestáltico no es tan poderoso como dos personajes de igual nivel, un carácter gestáltico es más poderoso que un carácter estándar. Los puntos de vida siempre serán al menos iguales a los de un carácter estándar, las tiradas de salvación casi sin duda ser mejores, y los personajes de la Gestalt tienen una versatilidad que Los caracteres estándar no se pueden lograr sin multiclase. Además, un grupo de personajes gestálticos tiene una mayor durabilidad y muchos más hechizos por día, por lo que a menudo pueden tomar seis o más encuentros consecutivos sin parar a descansar y prepararse Más hechizos.
Tus jugadores pueden estar emocionados por la oportunidad de jugar luchadores con poderosos ataques furtivos o lanzadores de conjuros que pueden lanzar cualquier ortografía. Pero como director de juego, sabes que la única medida de El poder de la PC que importa es la comparación con el poder de los NPC. Por lanzándoles monstruos de Índice de Desafío más altos, todavía les están dando desafíos significativos. Caracteres de la Gestalt se ven superiores en comparación con los caracteres estándar, pero eso es un falso comparación. Con esta variante, estos caracteres "estándar" no existir.
A continuación, te explicamos cómo crear una campaña que pueda manejar la gestalt Caracteres.
Calificaciones de desafío
Gestalt characters can obviously handle more opposition than standard characters. The simplest way to compensate for this is to use adventures with tougher monsters. In general, a party of four gestalt characters can handle multiple encounters with a single monster of a Challenge Rating equal to their average level + 1. If the monster poses a challenge because it forces the characters to succeed on life-threatening saving throws (such as with a Medusa or a guiverno), it's even weaker against gestalt characters, who have few or no weak saves. Characters can handle multiple encounters with such monsters at a Challenge Rating equal to their average level + 2. A Montículo tambaleante (CR 6) or a medusa (CR 7) would be appropriate average encounters for four 5th-level gestalt characters. If you take this approach, realize that characters gain levels faster than in a typical campaign, because they're gaining experience points as if those encounters were harder than they actually are. You're obviously comfortable with a high-powered game, so faster advancement may be an additional benefit, not a problem. if you rely on published adventures, this is the easiest option.If you want to keep level advancement at the standard average of thirteen encounters per level, reduce the Challenge Ratings of all the monsters and NPCs in your campaign by 1 (or by 2 if they rely on failed PC saving throws to pose a challenge). The Montículo tambaleante and the Medusa would both become CR 5 monsters, and the gestalt characters gain levels at the usual rate. Monsters with a Challenge Rating of 1 become CR 1/2, and other monsters with fractional Challenge Ratings have their CRs cut in half (kobolds become CR 1/6, in other words). Many staple low-CR monsters don't work well against a party of gestalt characters, even 1st-level gestalts.
Diseño de Aventura
Once you adjust the Challenge Ratings, you have one more subtle factor to consider when you design adventures for gestalt characters. You must take into account the greater "adventure stamina" of gestalt characters both when you're preparing an adventure and when you're at the gaming table running the adventure. Because gestalt characters have more hit points, better saving throws, and deeper spellcasting lists than standard characters, they can safely tackle more encounters in a row before they run low on hit points and spells.Los personajes de la Gestalt pueden, por ejemplo, profundizar en una mazmorra en su primera incursión, cuando los habitantes de la mazmorra no pueden esperándolos. Los defensores de cualquier sitio en un sitio basado en el sitio La aventura no puede depender de agotar a una fiesta de la Gestalt Caracteres. Tienen que representar una amenaza suficiente como para que la Gestalt Los personajes se retiran porque están preocupados por sus pieles, no por solo porque el mago está casi sin hechizos.
En las aventuras basadas en eventos, los personajes de la Gestalt pueden causar estragos con los horarios porque tienen más recursos a su disposición. disposición. Por ejemplo, un mago/hechicero gestáltico de nivel 10 puede teletransporta fácilmente a todo el grupo cuatro veces al día, sin recurriendo a los pergaminos. Eso significa dos viajes de ida y vuelta para visitar el Un sabio marchito que es un experto en la traducción de runas, cada uno en el Un abrir y cerrar de ojos.
En la mesa de juego, es posible que desee planificar juegos más largos porque los períodos de descanso de los personajes son naturales puntos de parada para los jugadores, y los personajes de la Gestalt tienen Menos períodos de descanso. Si te detienes en medio de la acción, Anima a tus jugadores a tomar notas cuidadosas de qué clase habilidades que gastan, qué hechizos tienen activos y otros información relevante. Los personajes de la Gestalt son lo suficientemente complejos como para Confiar únicamente en la memoria es una receta para los problemas.