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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pax" data-source="post: 892328" data-attributes="member: 6875">Re: Re: Re: Prestige Classes vs. Core ClassesReplace "loses" with "fails to get" -- you continue to be able to use all prior abilities ... you just don't GET things that would come later.  Fir example, take a Wizard(9); you qualify for whichever Prestige Class youw anted, and you're about to advance to level 10.If you take a level of Wizard, you will get increased spellcasting, increased level towards your Familiar, and a bonus feat.If you take anything else, you will at LEAST give up the bonus feat, and probably also the increased familiar benefits.  You don't lose what you already have, you just "lose" what you COULD have gained.Uh-oh, I think you've made a mistake WRT levels.Experience points buy you CHARACTER levels.  Not class levels.  IF you are a Fighter(5), you will gain 6th level when you have 15,000XP ... wether that 6th level is another fighter level (making you a Fighter(6)), a Wizard level (making you Fighter(5)/Wizard(1)), or whatever.All characters, no matter how many classes you have, have a SINGLE experience total.  That denotes your character level, which is the sum of all your various class levels.A Fighter(5)/Wizard(5) has the exact same number of experience points as a Fighter(10).See above....Seriously, though ... optional rules aside: all charactes start out single-classed.  No more Fighter-MagicUser-Thief as a starting "first level" character; a Fighter(1)/Wizard(1)/Rogue(1) is a third level character, with the exact same experience as a Fighter(3).Experience points denote character level; chartacter level is the SUM of all class level(s).  You will, by PHB rules, have at most 20 character levels ... so if you advance two classes evenly, you will have 10 levels of each.A Wizard(20) has th same experience as a Wizard(10)/Fighter(10).</blockquote>

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