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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jaer" data-source="post: 4040708" data-attributes="member: 57861">I think we are exactly on the same page, here.In my mind, the choices of powers and abilities better fits in with your style.  You develope the character and can base your choices on the selection given as you level up.  At 12th lvl, your character might not look the way you thought they would when you started out at 1st level, but that is the way the campaign shaped that character, and that is awesome.PrCs, in my mind, go against this because you need to plan they out and force them along the way.  At 1st level, certains skills and feats were picked, and the trend continues on as you rise towards that PrC; because it was decided at 1st level that this character would take x, y, and z and be in this PrC by 8th lvl, the mentality is there to continue in that direction even if it doesn't fit the character anymore.  And likewise, it is not often a character just randomly has the skills, feats, and what-not required to enter a PrC without planning.The best example of PrCs not flowing freely is the Blackguard.  Pre-req Imp Sunder?  What PC paladin has Imp Sunder naturally?  Any paladin who has it, though, the other PCs must be thinking "is he planning on going blackguard?" (which is, to me, stupid...I realize the player can plan on having his character go bad without the character planning on going bad, but it just seems like bad form!).While I realize D&D is mainly for good characters and typically it is not meant for the PC's Paladin to go bad, but if it should happen, if the situation is perfect that the paladin should go bad, why does he need to slog through a few more levels until he meets the Blackgaurd PrC?</blockquote>

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