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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evilbob" data-source="post: 4047794" data-attributes="member: 9789">As the title:  if I qualify to start a PrC, then later lose some of the qualifications, can I continue to take levels in the PrC?  Maybe another way to word this would be:  is the requirement for every subsequent level of any PrC "one previous level of this PrC" or do the requirements remain for every level?The most broad example of this would be a PrC that requires an alignment, which you later change.  For example:  a good assassin.  If you qualified for it assassin level 1, then became good, could you continue to advance in the class?  I suppose a very difficult example could be a PrC that requires a minimum number of skill ranks, and the character was later drained of Intelligence, losing their skill ranks.  Again, the assassin:  if you lost enough Int to make you have only 7 ranks in Hide and Move Silently, would you be able to advance in that class?The DMG doesn't say anything specific that I could find, and no PrCs (again, that I could find) had any sort of conditional (like a paladin's conditional about that class:  they specifically have a "code of conduct" that is spelled out).  In fact, everything I've read specifically uses the words "start" or "become" this class when talking about requirements:  they do not mention the word "continue."The specific example that I was considering would be a Radiant Servant of Pelor (which requires access to the Sun domain), which after qualifying for, a player then took the Sun Devotion feat by trading out their Sun domain for the feat.  (The feat is from Complete Champion and the option to trade a domain for the feat is also listed there.)  They no longer have access to the Sun domain:  can they still take the PrC?My initial thought is:  technically, yes.  I'd hate to penalize the poor player who lost some part of her character and then ALSO couldn't continue to level up in her PrC, and it wouldn't be very fair (or easy) to draw a line between that and a flagrant sort of intentional change just done to min/max, like the RSoP thing.  And I flat-out like the idea of a good assassin as an RP choice.  So it'd be hard to tell the min/maxer "no" when I'd say "yes" to the RP or unlucky ones.  Other thoughts?</blockquote>

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