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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 3435165" data-attributes="member: 21938">This is veering away from the topic in hand and towards PrCs in general, but I agree.  I went away from D&D for a long long time because I felt that the (1st Ed.) rules were crap and arbitrarily limiting, and played RuneQuest instead.  As I understand it, the Rune Lord and Rune Priests of RQ Glorantha partly inspired the Prestige Classes, as in if your character meets certain pre-requisites you can gain access to other abilities that are specific to a partcular cult or culture.  RQ is chock full of cults, priests and spells that are useless for adventurers (would you really becoem a priestess of Voria, Spring Virgin and be able to produce flowers at a touch and befriend small cute animals?) but their existence informs and defines the world in which adventures happen.  I see no problem with such things existing. I dislike the 3.5 PrCs that they introduced that (a) are just a cheap form of multi-classing with no feeling of an external purpose and (b) violate the original concept that PrCs can be reached via any class (what is the Horizon Walker if not a Ranger+ ?).Anyway... the idea is present in 1st Ed. in the Bard and the Thief-Acrobat. It's the difference in multi-classing rules that enables them.</blockquote>