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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1194318" data-attributes="member: 1656">I'm away from my DMG, and the text is absent from the 3E SRD, but from memory, in 3E both Feats and Prestige Classes had requirements that were continuous.  If your Intelligence dropped below 13, you lost access to Expertise, which meant you lost access to Improved Trip, which meant you lost access to any class features of a Prestige Class that had Improved Trip as a requirement.In 3.5, however, while Feats still have continuous prerequisites, PrCs do not.  The prerequisites are only required for entry into the class."Prestige classes offer a new form of multiclassing. Unlike the basic classes, characters must meet Requirements before they can take their first level of a prestige class. The rules for level advancement apply to this system, meaning the first step of advancement is always choosing a class. If a character does not meet the Requirements for a prestige class before that first step, that character cannot take the first level of that prestige class."So a 3.5 Blackguard who loses access to Power Attack still has all his class features, can still advance as a Blackguard, etc, etc.  If he somehow loses all his Blackguard levels to Energy Drain attacks, however, he would be unable to take the first level in Blackguard again until he regained access to the requirement feat.-Hyp.</blockquote>