Ridiculous prestige class entries.(D&D 3.5)

[BIGMamaSloth]

To get into the prestige class vassal of bahamut, you have to kill a juvenile or older evil dragon... by yourself... and this is supposed to be a pestige class for paladins.

Any one else know of ridiculous special entry requirements for prestige classes ?
(that are humorous or ridiculous)

[dextercorvia]

There is supposed to be one about a hippopotamus, but I haven't dug into it too far.

Hierophant requires the ability to cast 7th level spells.

[Akal Saris]

Drunken Master requires a night of carousing and bar hopping without dying or embarrassing yourself.

[dgnslyr]

Only one night? Don't PCs do that on a regular basis anyways?

[GoatBoy]

Truenaming PrC's require you to play a Truenamer.

[Loki Eremes]

Invisible Blade.

Feat requirements: Far Shot, Point Blank Shot, Weapon focus (daggerlikeweapon)
Special: the PC must defeat a worthy oponent using his daggers.



Im not the wisest of mans, but didnt those feats belongs to an archer class?



That means when you become Invisible blade, that you'll never use those feats again, EVER. Unless you use a bow or ranged weapon, but that means no Invi Blade class features usage.


NOT FUNNY

[SilverLeaf167]

Only one night? Don't PCs do that on a regular basis anyways?

Yes, but do they seriously spend those nights without embarrassing themselves?

[tyckspoon]

Invisible Blade.

Feat requirements: Far Shot, Point Blank Shot, Weapon focus (daggerlikeweapon)
Special: the PC must defeat a worthy oponent using his daggers.



Im not the wisest of mans, but didnt those feats belongs to an archer class?



That means when you become Invisible blade, that you'll never use those feats again, EVER. Unless you use a bow or ranged weapon, but that means no Invi Blade class features usage.

Well, you can still throw your daggers, but yeah. IIRC, originally the Invisible Blade was going to have aspects of the Master Thrower. When that got split out to its own class, they forgot to remove the throwing-centric requirement feats from the Blade.

[begooler]

The thrall of Juiblex is initiated in a horrific rite
that involves the sacrifice of an intelligent being. At least three oozes, slimes, or puddings must be present for the ritual. The victim of the sacrificial ritual must be dissolved in acid.

Is chocolate pudding acceptable?

[Runestar]

To get into the prestige class vassal of bahamut, you have to kill a juvenile or older evil dragon... by yourself... and this is supposed to be a pestige class for paladins.

Which is funny when viewed in the context of one of the designers mentioning in rules compendium how his paladin smote a dragon for a fair amount of damage and successfully drove it off.

Interpret how you will.

There is supposed to be one about a hippopotamus, but I haven't dug into it too far.

Some initiate feat in sandstorm grants hippotamus turning or something like that.

[Scarlet-Devil]

Hah! Most of the Vile Darkness PrCs have bad requirements (sacrificing innocents in front of demons, etc), but I'd say Disciple of Mammon's is probably the worst .

[Jair Barik]

Some initiate feat in sandstorm grants hippotamus turning or something like that.

Blessed by Tem-Et-Nu (deity of rivers) allows you to rebuke hippopotami (less silly than turning them) and they cannot attack you unless magically compelled. The best bit though is the following line

If you ever lose favour with Tem-Et-Nu, or change your patron deity, you lose all benefits of this feat and take damage as if bitten by a hippopotamous.

That's right, when a Paladin falls he loses all his powers, when a follower of Tem-Et-Nu falls they lost their powers and get bitten by a hippo.

Same book has the scorpion heritor whose prerequisite is that you get stung by a monstrous scorpion and survive. Can't remember which one but I seem to recall one PrC requiring the player to get struck by lightning and survive. Both these of course lead to hilarious antics as players wishing to enter them attempt to meet the requirements, grappling with scorpions without any armour on, waving swords around in a lightning storm, hiring druids to strike them with magic or just mooning a temple of the local patron deity of storms/weather.

[Dimers]

Yes, but do they seriously spend those nights without embarrassing themselves?

That's like the question of whether Belkar is "guilty". He doesn't feel guilt ...

[RipperOfShirts]

Things that require DM intervention are annoying, such as 'spend X time with Y group, or Y person of Z level (especially if that time is in months)' or 'beat x monster solo' or 'spend x time in y location' (again, can be months). They require you to be able to find the group, spend valuable time away from your party (or stopping your party from going out and doing stuff), or to do something risky with no back-up.

Or the old 'take X feat(s)that will never be used with the features of this PrC (Order of the Bow Initiate, I'm looking at you)'

[Elric VIII]

Fist of Zuoken. It requires you to be a Monk. Talk about unbearable.

[Loki Eremes]

Blessed by Tem-Et-Nu (deity of rivers) allows you to rebuke hippopotami (less silly than turning them) and they cannot attack you unless magically compelled.

xDDDDDD... wait.. .........what?




That prestige claims to be optimized.

[Killer Angel]

Any one else know of ridiculous special entry requirements for prestige classes ?
(that are humorous or ridiculous)

Think of the requirements for Dwarven Defender.
Maybe it's not humorous, but certainly is ridiculous...

[Jair Barik]

xDDDDDD... wait.. .........what?




That prestige claims to be optimized.

Actually it is a feat. There is a PrC that you can get into by having the feat (I think) but Blessed by Tem-Et-Nu itself is a feat as opposed to PrC.

[Innis Cabal]

Hierophant requires the ability to cast 7th level spells.

How is this a ridiculous requirement. Seriously though folks. Have none of you ever heard of role playing? Because honestly that's where a lot of these requirements come from. The game isn't about X class getting Y goal. Or at least the intent wasn't.

[Coidzor]

How is this a ridiculous requirement. Seriously though folks. Have none of you ever heard of role playing? Because honestly that's where a lot of these requirements come from. The game isn't about X class getting Y goal. Or at least the intent wasn't.

It comes to you right on the cusp of high level spells and then tries to tempt you into no longer being a fullcaster during the period of a caster's life when high level spells are most crucial, pre-epic.

In order to get there, one's build-tree is devoted to being a caster, otherwise one couldn't take the PRC fully. But it does nothing to further that.

So, no, it's still ridiculous.

[Arutema]

Can't remember which one but I seem to recall one PrC requiring the player to get struck by lightning and survive.

That would be the Stormlord from some Forgotten Realms book.

[BobSutan]

Well, you can still throw your daggers, but yeah. IIRC, originally the Invisible Blade was going to have aspects of the Master Thrower. When that got split out to its own class, they forgot to remove the throwing-centric requirement feats from the Blade.

Master Thrower is one of teh worst PrCs in all practicality. Let's think about this for a moment. You're specialized in...disarming...yourself. Yeah, that was well thought out.

[Jair Barik]

How is this a ridiculous requirement. Seriously though folks. Have none of you ever heard of role playing? Because honestly that's where a lot of these requirements come from. The game isn't about X class getting Y goal. Or at least the intent wasn't.

Oh I quite agree. I think PrC where the player needs the DM's assistance (that is through them needing to seek out an organisation of some sort) are much more interesting than some of the other Prestige classes. That doesn't stop some of the entry requirements being a bit strange though.

[Xiander]

Master Thrower is one of teh worst PrCs in all practicality. Let's think about this for a moment. You're specialized in...disarming...yourself. Yeah, that was well thought out.

Nice job quoting the master thrower prestice class itself.

Now i want to make a joke prestice class specialised in throwing its armour at people, that is even worse right?

[gomipile]

I'd say that Arcane Archer's entry requirement(and, indeed, that of most race-only classes) is much too steep in proportion to what you gain from it.

[stainboy]

Hunter of the Dead. I don't think the author understood how hard it is for a paladin to get level drained by accident.

[Czin]

Hunter of the Dead. I don't think the author understood how hard it is for a paladin to get level drained by accident.

I can see it now....

A party has defeated a wight, but the paladin has snuck off with it and had it tied to a chair.
Paladin: Now vile fiend, I command that you take my levels!
Wight: Excuse me? You want me to take those on purpose?
Paladin: Of course!
Wight: But adventurers usually beg me not to take them...
Paladin: But I want you to take them so I can get into an obscure prestige class!
Wight: That sounds...stupid..
Paladin: But...I....GRAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!! flips the **** out SMITE EEEEEEEVVVVVILLLLLL!!!!! Wight disappears in small mushroom cloud

[gorfnab]

Magelord from Lost Empire of Faerun

Alignment: Any non-lawful
Skills: Intimidate 3 ranks, Knowledge (history) 6 ranks, Knowledge (arcana) 6 ranks.
Feats: Improved Initiative, Spell Mastery, Signature Spell, Weapon Focus (ray).
Spells: Ability to cast 5th-level arcane spells.
Special: You must have the evasion special quality as either a class feature or a racial trait.
Special: You must be tutored by a magelord or obtain rare tomes to study the tradition. Either option costs no less than 10,000 gp or a service of equivalent value.

For what this class does its prereqs are way too much of a tax. Unseen Seer is a much better option for sneak attack based spellcasters and Spellwarp Sniper can do a lot more with Ray spells than what this prestige class has to offer.

[Jair Barik]

You are actually allowed to voluntarily fail saves as I recall (its how most buff spells/healing spells work) but that still doesn't explain why the Paladin would want to get his levels drained in the first place.

[Greenish]

Magelord from Lost Empire of Faerun

For what this class does its prereqs are way too much of a tax. Unseen Seer is a much better option for sneak attack based spellcasters and Spellwarp Sniper can do a lot more with Ray spells than what this prestige class has to offer.

I agree that the requirements are too stiff, but it offers something neither US nor SS can: spontaneous casting. For quite a few spells, too.