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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deadguy" data-source="post: 1533778" data-attributes="member: 2480">Thinking about this more, I realise that in one campaign I do use a sort of pre-training for Prestige Classes. It wasn't actually intended that way, but it has worked out so. Originally I created rules so that a character could spend money to earn a little XP in formal training in downtime. It added the opportunity to include schools and academies of various kinds that had a practical use after characters attain level 1.So far only one character has wanted a Prestige Class (a Fighter / Rogue who became a Devoted Defender for the party Wizard). To achieve this he spent some of the time that the Wizard was studying (this was 3.0 days!) at a private school run to train bodyguards. So it explained his advancement into Devoted Defender nicely. The thing was this was two levels before he took a Devoted Defender level! Neither me nor any players had a problem with this, so it sort of become the expectation now for how you acquire Prestige Classes (and Cleric or Wizard levels for the first time).So perhaps training can work out okay if you aren't too pernickity about the timing! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>