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Zaq
2016-01-07, 01:37 PM
The vast majority of PrCs are either 10 levels long or 5 levels long, but there are a handful that have a different number of levels. I think it would be interesting to take a look at these oddball classes and see what they look like when they're all together. How many of these can we find? Please note that I'm only talking about PrCs that actually have an unusual number of printed levels—we may joke that Fatespinner is 4 levels long (since it's almost never a good idea to actually take the 5th level of it), but there are still 5 printed levels for it, so it wouldn't make the list. Racial Paragon classes are all 3 levels, but they're a weird in-between case that aren't base classes and aren't PrCs . . . and they're all easy to find, so they're less interesting.

Here's the ones I can find with a quick sweep through my books. I'm sure I've missed some, which is where you guys come in. Let me know any others that you can dig up. Please include the book where you found them, too.

3 Levels
Stoneblessed (Races of Stone)
Fist of the Forest (Complete Champion)
Paragnostic Initiate (Complete Champion)
Shadowstriker (Complete Champion)
Squire of Legend (Complete Champion)
Ruathar (Races of the Wild)
Wild Plains Outrider (Complete Adventurer)
Battle Trickster (Complete Scoundrel)
Magical Trickster (Complete Scoundrel)
Uncanny Trickster (Complete Scoundrel)
Wayfarer Guide (Complete Arcane)
Exotic Weapon Master (Complete Warrior)
Hulking Hurler (Complete Warrior)
Hellfire Warlock (Fiendish Codex II)

4 Levels
???

6 Levels
???

7 Levels
Spymaster (Complete Adventurer)
Initiate of the Sevenfold Veil (Complete Arcane)

8 Levels
Arachnomancer (Drow of the Underdark)

9 Levels
Malconvoker (Complete Scoundrel)
Sovereign Speaker (Faiths of Eberron)

11 Levels
???

12 Levels
???

13 Levels
Necrocarnate (Magic of Incarnum)
Void Disciple (Complete Divine)

I would be very surprised if that's all of them. I could swear I've seen at least a couple more in the 6-9 range, and I wouldn't be surprised if there was at least one 12-level class lurking around out there. What else can we find?

Grod_The_Giant
2016-01-07, 01:49 PM
True Necromancer is 14 levels.

MisterKaws
2016-01-07, 02:19 PM
Sword of Righteousness and Wonderworker, Book of Exalted Deeds.

The Glyphstone
2016-01-07, 02:22 PM
Ephemeral Exemplar, Lurking Terror, and Master Vampire are all 3-level prestige classes (though limited to specific forms of undead, so hard to apply in most games). Likewise for the Emancipated Spawn 3-level prestige class from Savage Species.

Jormengand
2016-01-07, 02:26 PM
Prestige Bard, Prestige Paladin and Prestige Ranger are 15 levels. All of them are obnoxiously difficult to get into in time to actually take all 15, but there we go.

Flickerdart
2016-01-07, 02:38 PM
Nar Demonbinder is 7 levels long.

ShurikVch
2016-01-07, 02:46 PM
There are some more:

3 Levels
Cannith Wand Adept (Sharn)
Council Mage (Dr#307)
Heir of Siberys (Eberron Campaign Setting)
Moon Drover (Dr#307)
Reforged (Races of Eberron)
Tomb Warden (Libris Mortis)

4 Levels
Noble Adventurer (Dr#307)

6 Levels
Fiend of Blasphemy (Fiend Folio)
Fiend of Corruption (Fiend Folio)
Fiend of Possession (Fiend Folio)
Telflammar Shadowlord (Unapproachable East)
Warsling Sniper (Races of Faerûn)

12 Levels
Bloodscaled Fury (Draconomicon)
Disciple of Ashardalon (Draconomicon)
Dispassionate Watcher of Chronepsis (Draconomicon)
Dragon Ascendant (Draconomicon)
Elemental Master (Draconomicon)
Hidecarved Dragon (Draconomicon)
Moonspeaker (Races of Eberron)
Sacred Warder of Bahamut (Draconomicon)
Unholy Ravager of Tiamat (Draconomicon)

The Viscount
2016-01-07, 11:34 PM
Court Herald from power of Faerun is 12 levels long.


EDIT: Just remembered Thurbane has a great collection here. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?226460-3-X-List-of-PrCs-with-quot-nonstandard-quot-levels)
With all of it, there's a PrC with every number of levels 3 to 15. I'm sure you can find racial classes with 1 and 2 levels if you really want.