prestige class skills

[samwana]

question about this, i want to play a chain master and the class skills are partially cross-class skills for a fighter, can i still use the chain master class skills as class skills or do i have to fulfill all of the prerequisites before i can use these skills as class skills? (i just reached lvl 2)

thnx for any answer!

 

[RogueJK]

You have to fulfill all of the prerequisites before taking any levels in a prestige class, such as the Master of Chains.

Once you meet those prerequisites, you can begin taking levels in the prestige class. Once you have at least one level in the prestige class, the class skills listed for the Master of Chains (Balance, Climb, Craft: metalworking, Escape Artist, Hide, Intimidate, and Open Lock) become class skills.

While taking levels as a Fighter, your only class skills are those listed for the Fighter in the Player's Handbook (Climb, Craft, Handle Animal, Jump, Ride, and Swim).

 

[AGGEMAM]

You might also want to re-read the section on multi-classing and skills in the PHB.

PHB, page 55.

Skills: The character retains and can access skills from all his or her classes. For purposes of calculating maximum ranks, a skill is a class skill if at least one of the character’s classes has it as a class skill. The maximum rank for a class skill is 3 + the character level. For a 7th-level rogue/4th-level wizard (an 11th-level character), a rogue skill or wizard skill has a maximum rank of 14. For a cross-class skill, maximum rank is half the maximum for a class skill.
If a skill is unavailable to a class (that is, if it’s an exclusive skill that a multiclass character’s other class doesn’t have access to), then levels in that class don’t increase the multiclass character’s maximum ranks. For instance, the 7th-level rogue/4th-level wizard would have a maximum rank of 10 in Use Magic Device, an exclusive class skill for rogues. The extra four levels in the wizard class do not increase the character’s maximum rank with Use Magic Device. Likewise, the same character could have a maximum of 7 ranks in Scry, an exclusive skill for wizards.

Emphasis added.

 

[samwana]

Thanks, I was thinking about as a next step I would multiclass to Ftr/Rog because of the skills. Otherwise my goal to become a chainmaster is a long way to go. As a human my multiclass penalties are not that high, and I would reach the chainmaster a lot earlier that way..