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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 2095155" data-attributes="member: 8835">I'd have to agree with Ravellion.  Things like the Paladin "should" be a prestige class.My reasoning is based on the concept that a prestige class is something you become.  Your character may have "acted" like one for some time, but at some point he makes the transition to the real class.  Part of this is also based on the concept that a low level PC is NOT really demonstrative of the person he wants to be.  Put another way, all the action heroes in the movies are higher than 5th level.  Before that, you're just working on attaining that skill level.  The math supports this, when you consider the capabilities of a pre-5th level PC.So in my mind, the core classes are the basic route someone takes.  They may act a certain way, which makes them suggestion of what Prc they'll grow into.  So a fighter may act all honorable and holy, and when he's high enough level, he can apply for Paladinship (kinda like Sturm in DL, except he always failed to get in).Basically, a I don't think an 18 year old kid leaves home with the mindset of "I'm the meanest blackguard there ever was on this planet!"  He more likely starts off as an evil fighter, and works up to greater and greater evils.I guess that's part of the litmus test for whether something should be a class or Prcdoes an 18 year old make sense for this class?does this class make sense for a 1st level PC?It's pretty easy to accept an 18 year old fighter or mage, who's pretty green.It's harder to accept an 18 year old "ArchMagus of Doom", who just left home yesterdaySo in that example, the "Archmagus of Doom" fails the test and is NOT a good Core Class</blockquote>

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