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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Christian" data-source="post: 944846" data-attributes="member: 381">Re: Re: why not take prestige classExactly. The answer to, "Why doesn't every Sorcerer take the Loremaster PrC, and get his same spell progression plus the Loremaster bonus abilities?", is that not every Sorcerer wants to be that focused on divinations and knowledge skills. A Sorcerer who does want to be that focused, ought to take the Loremaster PrC, and I don't see any problem with that. A well-designed PrC should be better than a standard core class within their area of specialization-that's where the term 'prestige' comes from. That fact that the class still gets full spell progression in their original core spellcasting class doesn't mean that a character who takes it doesn't 'give up' anything. Our Sorcerer/Loremaster has given up the ability to be a piece of heavy artillery (every Sorcerer's birthright, right?) in favor of his focus on Divinations.A Wizard gives up less, of course, in meeting the prereqs. He has extra feats to spend (a 10th level Wizard meets the feat prereq by spending one of his 4-5 standard feats on Skill Focus: Knowledge, as his bonus feats will automatically meet the other feat requirements) and generally more skill points (due to his maxed-out Int). And he'll have a lot more spells in his book than the Sorcerer has in his skull ... But then, he loses the bonus feats going forward, so he gives up a bit more after taking the class.The Loremaster is a particularly carefully-designed PrC, of course. There are definitely some WOTC splatbook and third-party PrC's that don't manage this as well. But it's a great example of how to make a spellcasting PrC that has full caster progression and interesting powers without being overpowered.</blockquote>

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