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<blockquote data-quote="Silveras" data-source="post: 1243367" data-attributes="member: 6271">My spin was based on the way the advice is laid out in Empire, and has little to do with how I'd actually handle it. As I said, I dislike the idea of assigning such abilities to the classes at specific levels. Empire does not mention multi-classed characters at all, as far as I can see. It deals explicitly with single-classed characters, then talks about assigning an appropriate selection of those abilities to the Prestige Classes. It also urges you to make sure that the ability assigned is to an appropriate level. That advice does not work with the reality of multi-classed characters. Is it overall character level that should determine how powerful an ability you get, or is it class level ? A 15th level character who is Wiz 5/ Clr 5/ MyTh 5 is a 15th level character, but if the guidelines are followed as written, s/he will have 3 5th level &quot;extra abilities&quot; (and no PrC, until Epic levels, would grant 15th or 20th level abilities). Consider the case of a Wiz 4/ Clr 4/ {other} 4; a 12th level character with 0 such &quot;extra&quot; abilities. The implicatation is that it should be overall character level that determines which abilities are assigned. It makes much more sense that a PrC you have to be 7th level to qualify for is not going to grant you a 5th level ability when you reach 10th level.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silveras, post: 1243367, member: 6271"] My spin was based on the way the advice is laid out in Empire, and has little to do with how I'd [B]actually[/B] handle it. As I said, I dislike the idea of assigning such abilities to the classes at specific levels. Empire does not mention multi-classed characters at all, as far as I can see. It deals explicitly with single-classed characters, then talks about assigning an appropriate selection of those abilities to the Prestige Classes. It also urges you to make sure that the ability assigned is to an appropriate level. That advice does not work with the reality of multi-classed characters. Is it overall character level that should determine how powerful an ability you get, or is it class level ? A 15th level character who is Wiz 5/ Clr 5/ MyTh 5 is a 15th level character, but if the guidelines are followed as written, s/he will have 3 5th level "extra abilities" (and no PrC, until Epic levels, would grant 15th or 20th level abilities). Consider the case of a Wiz 4/ Clr 4/ {other} 4; a 12th level character with 0 such "extra" abilities. The implicatation is that it should be overall character level that determines which abilities are assigned. It makes much more sense that a PrC you have to be 7th level to qualify for is not going to grant you a 5th level ability when you reach 10th level. [/QUOTE]

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