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<blockquote data-quote="Leatherhead" data-source="post: 7289021" data-attributes="member: 53176">Prestige Classes were a thing back in the days of 3.x.Here is the gist of them: You start out as a normal class, like Fighter or Wizard.Then you jump through some character building hoops. Which normally included selecting specific races, skills, feats, multi-class combinations, spells, and even sometimes some RP based requirements (like being a virgin, yes seriously that was a requirement for some of them). After satisfying the requirements, you can then level up as the PrC. PrCs tended to come in three main flavors.The Super-Specialist, which took one defining feature or ability and ran it to it's logical conclusion. Like the Frenzied Berserker, who can rage harder than any other Barbarian.The Mutation, where a character fundamentally changes in an incredible way. Dragon Disciples gave people dragon scales, fire breath, and claws (well before the Dragonborn existed)The Multi-Classer. Back in the day, multi-classing was largely regarded as a trap option. The Mystic Theurge allowed someone to level up their cleric and wizard spellcasting at the same time. Because if you did it the &quot;normal&quot; way, you would end up with a character who couldn't breach their enemies resistances reliably.Anyway, you don't start over at level one. It basically works the same way normal Multi-classing does. If you were a level 7 Wizard who decided to become a Rune Scribe for your next level up, you would still be a level 8 character. You would just have all the class features and abilities of a level 7 Wizard and a level 1 Rune Scribe.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Leatherhead, post: 7289021, member: 53176"] Prestige Classes were a thing back in the days of 3.x. Here is the gist of them: You start out as a normal class, like Fighter or Wizard. Then you jump through some character building hoops. Which normally included selecting specific races, skills, feats, multi-class combinations, spells, and even sometimes some RP based requirements (like being a virgin, yes seriously that was a requirement for some of them). After satisfying the requirements, you can then level up as the PrC. PrCs tended to come in three main flavors. The Super-Specialist, which took one defining feature or ability and ran it to it's logical conclusion. Like the Frenzied Berserker, who can rage harder than any other Barbarian. The Mutation, where a character fundamentally changes in an incredible way. Dragon Disciples gave people dragon scales, fire breath, and claws (well before the Dragonborn existed) The Multi-Classer. Back in the day, multi-classing was largely regarded as a trap option. The Mystic Theurge allowed someone to level up their cleric and wizard spellcasting at the same time. Because if you did it the "normal" way, you would end up with a character who couldn't breach their enemies resistances reliably. Anyway, you don't start over at level one. It basically works the same way normal Multi-classing does. If you were a level 7 Wizard who decided to become a Rune Scribe for your next level up, you would still be a level 8 character. You would just have all the class features and abilities of a level 7 Wizard and a level 1 Rune Scribe. [/QUOTE]

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