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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7682434" data-attributes="member: 996">PrCs could be used to take less 'apprentice' appropriate concepts that can't already be done via Backgrounds, and pushing them up the level scale.  You might be a 1st-level character with the Noble Background and thus  social status from your family, but you're not ruling a Kingdom.  A legacy-Tier PrC, OTOH, could represent at least attempting to found or re-gain a kingdom, if not actually having done so as the requisite 'deed,' in a campaign where that was appropriate.In that way PrCs could be used to more clearly define & emphasize the Tiers of play if the DM finds that desirable in his campaign.  Really take the 'Prestige' part seriously.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  You could have PrCs that take a conventional-class character out of the arena of one Tier, and highlight the change in scope and challenge of the higher one, maybe shifting the focus of his existing class somehow.  For instance, you could have a Legendary Monarch PrC that requires 11 levels or so, and high CHA, and a deed like, well, saving or conquering a kingdom or pulling a sword from a stone, or marrying the heir to the throne or somesuch.  It could include 'The Monarch & the Land are One' type powers, and large number of followers, and shift the action from the usual scale of adventuring to political intrigue, war, siege, prosperity, and the like, along with a Grand Vizier, Spy-Master, and High Priest, they create a new Golden Age for the kingdom.   Just a vague, radical idea... well, not /that/ radical, it's prettymuch just Name Level or Epic Destiny... ;P</blockquote>

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