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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gaiden" data-source="post: 695553" data-attributes="member: 103">Divining the intention from the original game designers, I don't think they were thinking  PrC's would play such a major role in character creation and advancement.  Now, it is virtually unheard of to hear of a character without a PrC.  Single classed characters are the exception rather than the rule.  The original point of PrC's was to be exactly that - prestigious and special.  They were supposed to be specialized.  Now, they pretty much just increase the abilities of a class.As I said above, I am not against PrC's - I just think they ought to be used for roleplaying reasons rather than powergaming reasons.  I will also freely coceed that there is nothing stopping DMs/PCs from taking a more roleplaying approach to PrC's.  Its just that as I said above, many DM's institute house rules to ensure that PrC's stay in line with roleplaying as opposed to powergaming.It would seem to me more in line with the designers intent to introduce an XP penalty similar for drastic multiclassing for multiple PrC's.  Opinions, thoughts...</blockquote>