Can Prestige classes incur multi-class XP penalties?

[Brother Shatterstone]

I'd like to point out that the line in question IS in the SRD:

From the link:

Prestige classes offer a new form of multiclassing. Unlike the basic classes, characters must meet Requirements before they can take their first level of a prestige class. The rules for level advancement apply to this system, meaning the first step of advancement is always choosing a class. If a character does not meet the Requirements for a prestige class before that first step, that character cannot take the first level of that prestige class. Taking a prestige class does not incur the experience point penalties normally associated with multiclassing.

End of thread correct?

 

[Nightfall]

Brother S,

One would think so...but I doubt it.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

One would think so...but I doubt it.

Probably true. I thought I ended a rules thread yesterday, on the first reply, but it ended up still going on... (Though I was right the whole time.)

 

[Nightfall]

Proudly?!

What's to be proud about this almost ENDLESS thread?!

 

[Sil]

Because i hate good-byes...

So did wizards do a stealth errata on this?

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

What's to be proud about this almost ENDLESS thread?!

Bah, stop watching my spell errors...

Nightfall[sblock] and watch my post count. I'm coming for you. [/sblock]

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

So did wizards do a stealth errata on this?

I’m guessing they added it after they answered the question in the sage.

 

[ThirdWizard]

Wasn't it also stated that when they made 3.5, if something wasn't reprinted from 3.0 to 3.5, that it didn't need any updating, so use the 3.0 ruling?

That is in reference to things like splatbooks. So, anything in the FRCS that isn't contradicted by a 3.5 resource is still a valid under 3.5 rules. That wouldn't apply to something like PrCs thave have been redone under the rules. Yes, they didn't mean to change the rule. It doesn't mean that they didn't accidently change it.

I'd like to point out that the line in question IS in the SRD:

http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/v35/PrestigeClasses.rtf

Yep yep. In d20 there is no xp penalty, but in D&D there is. The difference is subtle.

 

[Nightfall]

Bah, stop watching my spell errors...

Nightfall[sblock] and watch my post count. I'm coming for you. [/sblock]

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

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Yep yep. In d20 there is no xp penalty, but in D&D there is. The difference is subtle.

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...