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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oni" data-source="post: 483718" data-attributes="member: 380">Allow me to elaborate a bit.  I believe that character level is a good prereq for PrC's.  Some abilities are too powerful to receive at first level, but not too powerful to receive later on.  I don't believe that PrC's should be more powerful than the base classes, but I don't think they should be like starting over either, a 10 level PrC should run the range of about 5th-15th level in powerlevel.  Higher if it required a higher character level to achieve.  PrC's are really an alternate path of advancement for a character, and so a character level prereq actually allows for more freedom in getting the class rather than having to follow one convoluted set path to achieving the PrC.  I don't believe that a big set of prereqs that may or may not make sense or that is in place just to require a certain entry level is a good balancing tool.  I don't think trying to balance a PrC by requiring less useful feats to qualify is a good practice.  Just because one ability is sub-optimal doesn't make the more powerful ability any less usefull.   I liken it to taking a wizards spelllist and saying that lightning bolt is second level and fireball is 4th level and calling it balanced.  By only using prereqs that make sense you promote flavor rather than killing it by trying to maintain balance, and if you were to allow character level as a prereq then it automatically gives you a sense of scale as to how powerful a PrC should be.  I'm not sure I'm explaining myself very well, but I hope I'm making at least some sense.</blockquote>

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