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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 2731675" data-attributes="member: 3400">If a PC needs to be built from level 1 to make it into a prestige class, then I think you've built the prestige class wrong. Anything that you need to plan for from level 1 shouldn't be a prestige class, it should be an alternative full class.Sure, some players might want to start building the character from level 1 with the prestige class in mind, but that's a function of player choice, not prestige class requirement. You should build the PrC with the requirements you think fit the class, what powers it will build on, what proofs of commitment you need that the PC is seriously pursuing that path. If you introduce the class late and nobody can qualify for it at the earliest possible time it could be acquired, so what? That doesn't matter. They can multiclass into something else to get a jump start on the requirements they still need to make up and pick up the PrC whenever they manage to qualify. That's the beauty of PrCs now. There's no single path to get into them. Sure, there might be some powergaming optimizing paths relative to others, but again, so what? There's nothing written in stone that a PC has to be best optimized for picking up certain PrCs.I put out a list of some of the prestige classes available to my players, but not all of them. Some of them are PrCs their PCs wouldn't even know existed until revealed by play. And if they can't qualify for them at first opportunity, no big deal. They can start working on it when they learn what they have to do.</blockquote>

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