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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 1989898" data-attributes="member: 4134">Beyond the stuff others said, I want to elaborate some things here:Organization vs. PrC: Many PrC's are tied to a certain organization (Harper Agent, Daggerspell Mage/Shaper, etc.) This doesn't mean you have to take the PrC in order to join the organization, only that you have to join in order to take the PrC. Lower-level members, and even some high-level members never even take a single level. Those that do are the specialists.Occupation v.s PrC (a.k.a. the "assassin v.s Assassin" issue). Other prestige classes just represent a path of specialization a character can take, trading versatility for greater focus. You often don't have to take the PrC in order to take the name: you don't have to take the Assassin PrC to be an assassin - everyone who kills people for money can call himself assassin. He doesn't have to have levels in the Assassin PrC. I mean, he doesn't even have to have levels in the rogue class - a fighter, monk, wizard, cleric, or whatever can be an assassin as well, and they don't have to be stealthy backstabbers, either. You can just walk up on some guy, draw your greatsword, and hack him and his bodyguards to pieces.But if you take levels in the Assassin PrC, you get just those abilities a typical assassin (the stealthy sort) needs: More stealth, sneak attack, a nifty death attack, poison-related stuff, even spells that improve your sneaking and backstabbing.As for the prerequisites: This has several reasons: To make it a "prestige" class not everyone and their pet dog can join, but only people who have what it takes; to control the entry level and class(es) the character needs (though this is rarely exclusive to one class - but often favours a certain build); and to limit those PrC's to a certain race, organization or society. It wouldn't be the Dwarven Defender if everyone could join, now would it?</blockquote>

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