#There are actually vampire-specific prestige classes which are odd

[y-rhywbeth2]

Arcane Trickster was a prestige class when it was first introduced (meaning a high level class you had to unlock which was designed to compliment/specialise character build, in this case one meant to tie the abilities of two classes together = rogue and mage). As well as the rogue requirements you needed 6 levels of wizard or sorcerer, or 7 of bard (mage hand was also a requisite).

And now I'm wondering: if we ported BG3 back to 3.5e ruleset and kept the default subclasses, what arcane class is Astarion using? I feel like it's wizard (hates studying, but will do it if he has to/with sufficient bribery), but sorcerer without the charisma to go far, or bard not in the mood to bard (although he does have the melodrama) could work.