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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2595375" data-attributes="member: 14159">So you're saying everybody who uses Prestige Classes in their game are &quot;anime fanboys&quot; who play out &quot;final fantasy scenarios.&quot;?I guess Bards are so prophetic, since they were &quot;final fantasy scenarios&quot; before Final Fantasy even came out.&nbsp; The very concept of a Prestige Class is not unique to Third Edition, it was only clearly codified at that point.&nbsp; Multiclassing/Dual Classing through several classes to a certain point then diverging off in your progression along a related line was well established in D&amp;D almost a decade before Squaresoft made Final Fantasy.&nbsp; 1st Edition Bard and Thief Acrobat (1e DMG), 2nd Edition Athasian Dragon (from Dragon Kings), or kits like Greenwood Ranger (from the Complete Rangers Handbook) were all Prestige Classes in the sense that you progressed (often through multiple classes) or specific class gaining specific requirements until your progression forked into a completely new and specialized or enhanced direction at a certain level once you had your prerequisites.Now, instead of a variety of different rules for essentially the same thing (which long predated Final Fantasy's release in 1987, and dates to long before any significant spread of the Anime medium outside Japan), we have it all condensed into one rule system, the Prestige Class.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 2595375, member: 14159"] So you're saying everybody who uses Prestige Classes in their game are "anime fanboys" who play out "final fantasy scenarios."? I guess Bards are so prophetic, since they were "final fantasy scenarios" before Final Fantasy even came out. The very concept of a Prestige Class is not unique to Third Edition, it was only clearly codified at that point. Multiclassing/Dual Classing through several classes to a certain point then diverging off in your progression along a related line was well established in D&D almost a decade before Squaresoft made Final Fantasy. 1st Edition Bard and Thief Acrobat (1e DMG), 2nd Edition Athasian Dragon (from Dragon Kings), or kits like Greenwood Ranger (from the Complete Rangers Handbook) were all Prestige Classes in the sense that you progressed (often through multiple classes) or specific class gaining specific requirements until your progression forked into a completely new and specialized or enhanced direction at a certain level once you had your prerequisites. Now, instead of a variety of different rules for essentially the same thing (which long predated Final Fantasy's release in 1987, and dates to long before any significant spread of the Anime medium outside Japan), we have it all condensed into one rule system, the Prestige Class. [/QUOTE]

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