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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cbas10" data-source="post: 1274458" data-attributes="member: 6459">I'm with several others.  Depending on the Prestige Class, there can be varying amounts or role-playing or other special circumstances involved.  However, there is almost always at least some sort of instructor, mentor, or organization involved.  Commonly, I will allow players to start to roleplay these relationships (petitioning, training, etc) long before they can actually take the class.  Thus, when they finally have all of the prerequisite skills and such, they have made the first step to the path of the PrC's special benefits.Sometimes I will heap on more role-play requirements to a PrC here or there, but will provide similar benefits, too.  For example, in my games, in order to take the Archmage PrC, one must be accepted into the ranks by other archmagi (Dragonlance's Towers of High Sorcery influenced my games a little).  This sometimes required a test of sorts, as well as types of "background" checks.  In exchange for going through this, they would receive discounts on spell research, expensive components, magic item development, etc.</blockquote>