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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 2791218" data-attributes="member: 907">Right. Most fighters tend to take a few of those feats (Improved Trip is very good against humanoids, and Power Attack is good if you're going the classic "hit'em hard" route), but not all of them.Being 12th level against 5th level opponents sure helps too.Generally, classes whose abilities are "linear" work well for multiclassing. This definitely applies to fighters (who just keeps getting BAB and feats), and pretty well to rogues (who will lose out on those cool high-level abilities, but until they get those their progression is linear), barbarians (who will lose out on improved rage and DR), paladins (who miss sub-par spells and better smite), and rangers (who lose out on sub-par spells, a sub-par animal companion, and their fighting style).Classes with "exponential" abilities will lose out badly when multiclassing. This means all spellcasters (though for paladins and rangers, the spellcasting is such a minor part of their abilities that it doesn't really count), monks (who get tons of special abilities, as well as extra damage and stuff - plus, their base abilities don't play well with other classes), and similar things.Ideally, a PrC shouldn't be better than a normal class. It should provide a specialization. However, most PrCs give you more goodies than you give up (especially spellcaster classes, since spellcaster base classes tend not to have much other than spellcasting to give up in the first place). It should be noted that most PrCs carry an opportunity cost, in that they often require you to take some subpar feats or similar things in order to get in (Archmage is a very powerful class, but requires one feat that's essentially wasted - Skill Focus (spellcraft)).That said, there are some prestige classes that are the very opposite of specialized. In the core rules, these are the Mystic Theurge, Arcane Trickster, and Eldritch Knight. These are basically "patches" for the weakness of multiclassed spellcasters, usually requiring 3-5 levels in two different classes before you can start getting the benefits of almost-full advancement in both.</blockquote>

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