Losing prerequisite feats.

[anest1s]

It can get stranger still. the Sand Shaper PRC from Sandstorm requires the feat Touchstone: City of the Dead.

Now the Touchstone feat gives you a link to a mystical place, and grants certain bonuses based on the site you're linked to. You can change your link, however, without retraining the feat. It's not quite like changing socks, but you could in fact do it several times a week if you chose.

So a person could lose and regain their PRC several times a week.

Wow. just wow.

Chameleon

 

[kitcik]

Silly tangent alert

A Dire Lion bit one of his arms off, and suddenly he lost 8 levels of a PrC.

Do these lost levels count towards the 20 level (non-epic) limit. Would your XP reset to the lower amount? Would you regain them if you got the feat back? What would happen to XP gained in the interim?

Chameleon

What would happen if, based on your feat switches, you qualified for two, mutually-exclusive PRCs? Would they both count towards the 20 level limit? Or could you have 19 levels in other stuff and switch your 20th level back and forth based on your feat selection for the day.

 

[Greenfield]

I think it says that the Bonus Feat(s) can't be used as PRC prerequisites.

 

[Dandu]

I allowed this train of thought once, in my earlier days of 3.5 DMing. One of my players had magic bracers that granted him improved strength and the Power Attack feat.

A Dire Lion bit one of his arms off, and suddenly he lost 8 levels of a PrC.

I didn't let anyone use items as prereq's anymore.

You probably shouldn't allow dismemberment either. It's no fun being a melee character who's been disarmed in such a fashion.

 

[Sekhmet]

[MENTION=98256]kitcik[/MENTION] They're not technically gone, he just couldn't proceed in the class until he regains the feat (like a Monk or Paladin, sort of), and his class features were unusable.

[MENTION=6669384]Greenfield[/MENTION] It does, I hadn't seen that rule at the time.

[MENTION=85158]Dandu[/MENTION] Dismemberment is easy enough to fix. Regeneration (only 900gp cast by an NPC) could do the trick. Since my games are typically less optimized, my players have seemed to tolerate or enjoy it (based on their "How Am I Doing" sheets).
Also - "disarmed".
Every time, Dandu.