Do feat produced skill bonuses help for PrC reqs?

[Olive]

Hi people:

if i need 5 ranks in ride to qualify for a PrC, and i take skill focus (ride) as a feat, does that mean i am 2 ranks closer to qualifying for the PrC? Or are skill focus bonuses counted as something other than ranks?

 

[Crothian]

Hi Olive!! (Every time I see you name, all I can think of is Olive, the Other Reindeer Christmas Special )

No, only ranks matter for getting into prestige classes. It's an unnamed bonus, not an increase in ranks.

 

[Wolf72]

I always think of Olive Ruskettle the famous bard ... oh wait that's Olav ... and Olive is the imposter

 

[Olive]

No, only ranks matter for getting into prestige classes. It's an unnamed bonus, not an increase in ranks.

thats what i thought... i wonder why in the Arcane Trickster thread I read people seemed to think that skill focus was a way for getting to the PrC quicker?

maybe i misunderstood what they were saying...

as for the name, well it's my old character's name. i'm not sure why i named her that... the other characters names were Venus and Xilo (which according to the Elves issue of Dragon is elvish for petal). So maybe it was just a party with stupid names... but the only olive I can think of is Popeye's girlfriend!

 

[CRGreathouse]

Perhaps they or you were thinking of Cosmopolitan from the FRCS?

 

[Olive]

no, having read it again what i was confused about was this:

"(this is slightly power-gamey but if you happen to get 2 knowledge skills up to 10, and then take skill focus in a knowledge skill, you only have to take 3 levels of rogue to get the exclusive skill up to 7 ranks by taking a level in loremaster prestige class, this lets you get to 17th level spellcasint power or 9th level spells)"

i thought the skill focus was about something other than getting to the loremaster...

so there we go.