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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9228565" data-attributes="member: 6779196">QFT!I feel like the intent behind all the fiddly prestige class prerequisites was so that you’d have something to build towards. And in conjunction with the advice that the GM should be judicious about what prestige classes were available in their campaign, I imagine a game where you have to be trained by an appropriate NPC to gain a prestige class, and you have no way of knowing what prestige classes you might meet a trainer for in advance. Like, imagine you’re just playing a ranger, leveling organically, and you happen to come across an Arcane Archer NPC, who’s like “I can teach you to do what I do, but not until you’ve mastered the mundane use of a bow.” Now you’ve got the long-term goal of learning the prerequisite feats in order to qualify for it. That sounds really cool in theory, but the unfortunate reality is that most players are just going to look for a prestige class (or multiple prestige classes) they want and reverse-engineer the most efficient path to qualify for it/them at as low a level as possible. Hence the old saying, “how do you build a 1st level character? Build a 20th level character, then remove 19 levels from them.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 9228565, member: 6779196"] QFT! I feel like the intent behind all the fiddly prestige class prerequisites was so that you’d have something to build towards. And in conjunction with the advice that the GM should be judicious about what prestige classes were available in their campaign, I imagine a game where you have to be trained by an appropriate NPC to gain a prestige class, and you have no way of knowing what prestige classes you might meet a trainer for in advance. Like, imagine you’re just playing a ranger, leveling organically, and you happen to come across an Arcane Archer NPC, who’s like “I can teach you to do what I do, but not until you’ve mastered the mundane use of a bow.” Now you’ve got the long-term goal of learning the prerequisite feats in order to qualify for it. That sounds really cool in theory, but the unfortunate reality is that most players are just going to look for a prestige class (or multiple prestige classes) they want and reverse-engineer the most efficient path to qualify for it/them at as low a level as possible. Hence the old saying, “how do you build a 1st level character? Build a 20th level character, then remove 19 levels from them.” [/QUOTE]

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