Is there a dualcasting handbook?

[thebigstupidfighter]

Because I'm thinking of making one, just a sort of basic guide to various combinations of casting classes and how to get the most out of each one, that sort of thing.

Not just for casting per se, also ToB manuevers, psionics, etc.

If no one knows of a resource like this I'll be putting up a skeleton for it probably sometime today or tomorrow.

[snakeman830]

Other than early entry being your friend?

There are a couple of ways to get double 9's without early entry or fast-advancement PrC's, though.  The first is Wizard/Druid/Arcane Heriophant/Mystic Theruge.  The second that I know of (although hugely suboptimal) is Wizard/Shadowcaster/Noctumancer/Mystic Theruge.

Might want to mention Geomancer in that it requires dual-casting, but is NOT a dual-caster PrC.

[Rebel7284]

For a very high level build:

Illumian Factotum 8/Bard 1/Ur Priest 1/Sublime Chord 1/Mystic Theurge(or Forlucan Lyrist) 9

[Littha]

On a related note i need people to look at my homebrew base class with dual casting...

you guys are good at breaking things right? 

http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=8160.0

[OblivionSmurf83]

On a related note i need people to look at my homebrew base class with dual casting...

you guys are good at breaking things right? 

http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=8160.0

What spell lists do you cast spells from? Sor/Wiz and Cleric? Or just Arcane/Divine? If the latter, the class is incredibly powerful.

How does limited spell knowledge interact with the fact that you keep a spell book? What happens if you inscribe more spells into it? Can you swap out your spells by 'choosing' which ones you know from the spell book? If so, the class is quite broken. If not, it's quite good as it actually avoids the Psychic Reformation trick the Sorcerer can use to know any spells he needs to.

[Prime32]

Precocious Apprentice is a good feat for dual-casting builds to let you meet prereqs sooner.

For geomancer, a cloistered cleric 1/wizard 3 with the Southern Magician feat qualifies for geomancer, and can use the class to apply the better aspects of cleric casting to his wizard spells. Including the ability to cast spells in armour and use Divine Metamagic on his wizard spells. You can also do this with cloistered cleric 1/sorcerer 4, or cloistered cleric 1/(arcane caster) 2 with Precocious Apprentice.

[snakeman830]

Oh, Spell Versatility is an awesome class feature, no doubt about it.  The Drift abilities can be handy too, so long as you pick the right ones.

[thebigstupidfighter]

I'll take a look at geomancer, it sounds like it has potentail although its a bit of an oddball in a dualcaster handbook.

Snakeman- How does the Shadowcaster build work exactly? I'm not clear on how Mystic Theurge is advanceing shadowcaster, but I could have missed something since I pretty much wrote them off a sucking, but another dual 9s build that doesn't rely on UrPriest/Divine Crusader is always worth noting.

Prime- I'm strongly of the opinion hat Precocious Apprentice dos not allow for early entry, to the point that I don't even intend to present it as an option. If it actually granted the ability to cast 2nd level spells,it would ignore its own limitation since you would be 'casting 2nd level spells' already.

Anywho, since no one has come forward saying they know of a guide like this, and there certainly seems to be enough interest in one, I'm going to go ahead and do this.

[snakeman830]

Tome of Magic page 117 states that Shadowcasters can enter and be advanced by Mystic Theruge (substituting 2nd level mysteries for 2nd level spells).  It seems that they intended it to be the arcane side, but there is nothing actually stating that.

[KellKheraptis]

Because I'm thinking of making one, just a sort of basic guide to various combinations of casting classes and how to get the most out of each one, that sort of thing.

Not just for casting per se, also ToB manuevers, psionics, etc.

If no one knows of a resource like this I'll be putting up a skeleton for it probably sometime today or tomorrow.

I can't even recall whether I ported it all over, but in my build compendium on here (a thread called something like CO Compilation : Kell's Build's) I have several Rainbow Warsnakes that get a preposterous number of available spell lists while still getting 9th level spells without resorting to VSC-ing 8's.

[thebigstupidfighter]

Rainbow Warsnake is more something I'd toss into a 'dirty tricks' section rather than writing up a build for, but if you have a build you think is worth pointing out specifically I'd be happy to link it.