D&D 3E/3.5 3.5 prestige class requirements

[Urklore]

Some prestige classes require you to have certain amount of ranks in animal empathy. What do you think is a good option to convert this to 3.5 since this is no longer a skill? I was thinking the same amount of ranks you require in Animal Empathy is the same roll mod you need in order to take the prestige class.

So if a class needs 7 ranks in animal empathy, you would need a +7 or higher mod to your wild empathy (which is based on CHR mode and your DRU or RNG level).

Any thoughts?

 

[youspoonybard]

I'm more partial to Handle animal (x ranks), Wild Empathy Class feature.

 

[Urklore]

See that's the funny thing. There are a few prestige classes that require BOTH ranks in animal handling and animal empathy. Since animal empathy is now known as wild empathy and does not use ranks, just trying to come up with a logical way to use it in the 3.5 aspect.

 

[youspoonybard]

I'd still say it was my way.

That way, the level that you enter is guaranteed, and the previously only druid/ranger skill is still druid/ranger only.

 

[Halivar]

In the end, whether or not you qualify for a prestige class is entirely up to the perview of the DM. I don't think there necessarily needs to be a hard-and-fast conversion rule. Talk it over with the DM, and hammer out whther your character has the life experience reflected by the old rules.

 

[CrimsonTemplar]

In the end, whether or not you qualify for a prestige class is entirely up to the perview of the DM. I don't think there necessarily needs to be a hard-and-fast conversion rule. Talk it over with the DM, and hammer out whther your character has the life experience reflected by the old rules.

In a home campaign that's fine, but in a campaign like Living Greyhawk these things need to be addressed by WotC. Several PrClasses are in the position that players may no longer qualify. For instance in 3.0 a Duelist needed Dodge, Mobility & Ambidexterity. In 3.5 you need Weapon Finesse instead of Ambidexterity, so some players may need to pick up (or swap out) feats, skills, classes etc to continue to qualify. The sooner WotC clarifies these things the sooner can get back to playing instead of worrying about what's going to happen to their PC.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

I'd say take handle animal with x ranks and wild empathy as class feature. It's a faux-pas to directly make x levels in class y a prerequisite. You can make it indirectly (like making weapon specialization a prerequisite for fighter 4), but that can be circumvented in some way (in that case, with 6 levels of psychic warrior, or the epic feat favored weapon specialization or something like that).