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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harlock" data-source="post: 1113739" data-attributes="member: 4545">Hey Holy Bovine, awesome project you are undertaking.  As a Scarred Lands DM I must say I am going to grovel for a copy of that thing.*Harlock grovels.Anyhow, to answer your question, in my current SL game I told the players if they intended to take a PrC they darn sure better start down that road early and often through roleplaying it.  A dwarven monk wants to become a drunken master?  He better drink his ale regularly and have more than a back story.  A Paladin wants to be a Gold Knight healer, she better start using that lay on hands often and on others before herself showing some true altruism and selflessness.  She also better be willing to use it on street urchins, sick cattle for Farmer Bob who is going to lose his milking livelihood should Bessie pass, etc.  I'd love to see my players "practice" fetas before they get them even.  It's purely fluff and would have no in-game effects but wouldn't it be refreshing to have a player say, "Out of frustration, Grishnak wildly flails with his axe trying to take out as many enemies as possible in one flurry" while working up to the Whirlwind attack feat?  I love that style of play and intensity and concern for roleplay and so try to offer reasons to roleplay in my game by giving XP bonuses for such ideas.  So as far as PrCs go, I consider my players forewarned.  If someone comes to me at 10th level and says OOC, "I want to take PrC X" and they've never showed any attempt or interest to it in character, then I'm going to tell them they don't have a chance.  As DM I allow choices but I want to see in character reasons for those choices, not min-max or newest kewlest PrC on the block reasons.</blockquote>

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