This cropped up into my head after doing some XP calculations about the upcoming game that I'm in.
How do you all handle LA & Bloodline buyoffs in Gestalt?
Assuming that LA templates take up one half of a Gestalt build then they seem to be a more cost-effective option than they are in normal since you're gaining abilities balanced to be equivalent to a class level, but you're paying the equivalent of one class' abilities for it (ie, you don't lose skills, BaB, HD etc).
However, buying them off again is far *less* cost effective than in a normal game, since the amount of XP that you pay is costing you two class levels worth of abilities rather than just one.
The same goes for Bloodlines, depending on the level thresholds involved a Major bloodline is costing you 1-2 levels (so 2-4 sets of class abilities) and unless you're really cheesing the Bloodline levels to get into PrCs etc early, you're likely only to be using half of the abilities that it grants.
So, what's the prevailing opinion on what constitutes a balanced way of using these in Gestalt? I can see a few possibilities, ranging from:
* Increasing Bloodline abilities by 50% or 100% across the board
* Allowing two bloodlines and counting the standard XP cost as buying off both bloodlines
* Cutting XP costs for Buyoffs by 1/3 or 1/2
* Allowing one level of buyoff to buyoff two instead (ie you take two LA+X templates (one on each side) and the standard buyoff XP kills both of them)
And that's just what my 2am addled brain has come up with. Anyone ever field-tested any kind of alterations like this?