Can Prestige classes incur multi-class XP penalties?

[Brother Shatterstone]

I'll watch what I want and worry about what I want. You'll not find me easy meat!

Of you say so, if you say so...

 

[ThirdWizard]

So your saying that a publisher couldn't give an xp penalty on PrC if they wanted to cause its not part of the SRD?

Seems to me that they can’t cause it’s a simple oversight...

I don't quite follow.

A publisher making a PrC can easily make a line saying "this prestige class incurs an experience penalty as per the multiclassing rules" if they so desired. I don't see why they would want to give a PrC an xp penalty, however.

It's definately an oversight. I'm just pointing out the implications of their oversight and seeming inability to correct it through a very simple errata fix.

 

[ElectricDragon]

I beg to differ. It is not NFG, nor 3.0, but rather 3.5. The piece I quoted is directly from the 3.5 SRD. Specifically the section on Prestige Classes, introduction paragraph. The "Bolded" line is a direct quote. Read the SRD. You will see that I am right.

Ciao
Dave

 

[ThirdWizard]

I beg to differ. The piece I quoted is directly from the 3.5 SRD. Specifically the section on Prestige Classes, introduction paragraph. The "Bolded" line is a direct quote. Read the SRD. You will see that I am right.

Ciao
Dave

The SRD has absolutely no effect on the D&D rules. None.

EDIT: As an example, D&D has a spell called Mordenkainen's Disjunction. d20 has a spell called Disjunction. D&D has an xp penalty for PrC multiclassing. d20 has no such xp penalty.

 

[Sil]

The SRD has absolutely no effect on the D&D rules. None.

EDIT: As an example, D&D has a spell called Mordenkainen's Disjunction. d20 has a spell called Disjunction. D&D has an xp penalty for PrC multiclassing. d20 has no such xp penalty.

Can you point me to a source for this idea? I see your edit, so perhaps i am posting too fast, but i find this idea very interesting. It was not mentioned at all in the discussion recently on what is RAW. It was suggested that the SRD is a subset of D&D, but you suggest that there can be more in the SRD than is in D&D. Interesting.

But I think I will find this is an unique example.

 

[ThirdWizard]

A thread recently went off track into discussing this topic. I'll try to find a link. I'm pretty sure it was brought up, but I could be mistaken.

EDIT: Here it is. Ahh tangents.

 

[Nightfall]

*points to his near 1K posting over Brother S and chuckles*

 

[Sil]

A thread recently went off track into discussing this topic. I'll try to find a link. I'm pretty sure it was brought up, but I could be mistaken.

EDIT: Here it is. Ahh tangents.

Yes, that was the thread i was thinking of.

It was sugested in that thread by me that the SRD is a nutered version of the books. And that the books beat the SRD, as they always do. But no one suggested in that discussion that a rule in the SRD might exsist that does not exsist in the core books. Very interesting.

 

[irdeggman]

IMO the books are of higher level of authority as far as rules go than is the SRD.

But I have also noticed that the SRD includes updates and errata that the books and "official" errata do not - so my conclusion is that in the books are still the higher level authority but to consider the fact that the publisher can be lazy when it comes to making formal changes.

As far as the D&D vs d20 rules go - really the SRD is the same (again, lower level of authority) if not then the only gods available in D&D are the GreyHawk ones (the ones listed int eh 3.5 PHB) and everything else published is not D&D (included FR).

To answer the original question - can a PrCl incur multi-class penalty, the answer is yes it depends on the sepcifics of the class. Now do they incur a multi-class penalty then the answer is no (and based on the SRD it appears that WotC is making it "Official".)

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

*points to his near 1K posting over Brother S and chuckles*

Down from 6K mind you...

EDIT:Here it is. Ahh tangents.

Darn I missed your edit last night... Interesting thread, it really looks like you all where cutting hairs to small, small, sizes but I often call a wand a staff and a staff a wand so I'm not a good judge of things.