I tried this, too, but gave it up as a bad idea. First, the pure casters start out with almost no hit points: often under 10, and will always be WAY behind where they would be beginning as ninjas, etc.
Second, while I don't think their ability to cast once they switch is much effected [except for as Gimli notes], the hybrids get no spell picks for a very long time, and even then learn spells much slower than pure casters.
Theres also the problem of leveling: the levels get breathtakingly far apart after 20 or so. If this game had as huge an environment as W7 or Daggerfall, wouldn't be a problem. You could play for 6 months and create a truely potent hybrid with all spells in the appropriate spell book, but in this game you'd end up patroling the swamp or arnika road endlessly just to gain exp.-- not really fun, at least for me...
Oru
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