Can Prestige classes incur multi-class XP penalties?

[ThirdWizard]

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.

The smaller the better! But, really, in this case for me it's less the destinatin and more the trip.

 

[Nightfall]

Down from 6K mind you...

Yeah well...I had to take some time off.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Yeah well...I had to take some time off.

So did I, I was down to about 7 posts a week for 6 months there.

 

[Nightfall]

Well I'll be back up top in no time!

 

[Jhulae]

Well, it'd be nice if they did update the eratta. Fortunately, we play as the FAQ mentions, because it does seem like it was an oversight rather than a deliberate change.

I wouldn't want to play in a game that doesn't add that 'house rule' as it truly pigeonholes most races other than humans and half elves to a handful of class options. Might as well go back to AD&D.

 

[amethal]

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.

Well, there's stuff in the SRD which is from Deities and Demigods. I wouldn't call that book core, although of course you might.

Actually, I'm not sure if the domains in the "Divine Domains" section of the SRD are in Deities and Demigods either.

I only looked at this thread to see how such an apparently simple question could have so many answers.

Anyway, glad I did. I'm saving up "I don't care if its in the 3.0 DMG and the 3.5 SRD, you are getting an XP penalty for multiclassing into a prestige class" for the next time a rules lawyer really annoys me.

 

[Felon]

As the title...

So you have your answer. It has been clarified by an official WotC document written by one of the DMG's authors readily available on the official WotC website that a PrC does not incur the penalty. Anyone who honestly thinks that just doesn't count I have to regard as too obtuse to live.

 

[beaver1024]

They errated it by stealth because they don't want it to seem like the "improved" version of DnD has an errata list longer than the original. Which everyone knows it basically has.

 

[Arkhandus]

Sil, the SRD is not a neutered version of the rules. The SRD contains almost all the core rules (only a few items that are Product Identity are left out of the SRD, and a few rules or whatnot that were kept out so there'd be a reason to buy the books; namely the XP charts, wealth by level tables, and such). The SRD also includes various rules from non-Core books that are, nonetheless, Open Game Content that other publishers and gamers can use freely. The SRD provides more of the rules, for free, than the 3 core rulebooks.