Prestige Classes and Multiclass restrictions

Mercule

Adventurer

• Apr 11, 2005

• #1

Something that was offered up to me, this weekend, as official: "Once you take a level in a PrC, you cannot return to your original class(es) at any point." This is for a 3.5 game.

Now, I'm pretty comfortable with may stance that this is absolute nonsense. But, because the pronouncement rendered me absolutely speechless (Power Word Stun?) I wanted to make absolutely sure.

What say ye? Aye or Nay? Can anyone quote any passage that proves one way or the other?

Thanks.

 

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Lasher Dragon

First Post

• Apr 11, 2005

• #2

Bull

 

Lasher Dragon

First Post

• Apr 11, 2005

• #3

From SRD:

Prestige classes offer a new form of multiclassing. Unlike the basic classes, characters must meet Requirements before they can take their first level of a prestige class. The rules for level advancement apply to this system, meaning the first step of advancement is always choosing a class. If a character does not meet the Requirements for a prestige class before that first step, that character cannot take the first level of that prestige class. Taking a prestige class does not incur the experience point penalties normally associated with multiclassing.

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Just like multiclassing, yet incurs no XP penalty, and has prerequisites.

 

Ankh-Morpork Guard

First Post

• Apr 11, 2005

• #4

Lasher Dragon said:

Bull

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Complete Bull, by the RAW.

 

smootrk

First Post

• Apr 11, 2005

• #5

More likely a house rule

 

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cmanos

First Post

• Apr 11, 2005

• #6

not official at all....may be a house rule, but it sucks as a house rule.

 

DungeonmasterCal

First Post

• Apr 11, 2005

• #7

This may be true with some PrC's and paladins and monks, but overall, there's nothing to restrict a player from jumping from PrC to Base Class at will.

 

Lasher Dragon

First Post

• Apr 11, 2005

• #8

I think even a monk can take some PrC levels and jump back into monk, can they not?

From SRD:

A monk who gains a new class or (if already multiclass) raises another class by a level may never again raise her monk level, though she retains all her monk abilities.

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It specifically says "class", nothing about Prestige classes, which at least IMO are treated completely differently, at least different enough to not apply in this case.

 

Mercule

Adventurer

• Apr 11, 2005

• #9

Lasher Dragon said:

I think even a monk can take some PrC levels and jump back into monk, can they not?

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Actually, I'm pretty sure that the normal restrictions apply to Monk and Paladins in this case. My evidence for that, though, is pulled from 3.0 where a few of the PrCs in "Sword and Fist" specifically allowed Monk to continue as a Monk -- the implication being that other PrCs didn't.

Of course, as DM, I wouldn't force the multiclass restriction on Monk or Paladin because it's been officially stated as flavor-only.

 

Lasher Dragon

First Post

• Apr 11, 2005

• #10

Oh it has? Cool I wasn't aware of that... anything that can help "unhose" the monk is good in my book