Quote Originally Posted by Guigarci View Post
Except one can reduce the entry ranks to 4 as standard with a CC skill.
So you're suggesting a PrC designed primarily for fighting classes should avoid using the one and only social skill most of those classes have in favour of honestly wasted cross class ranks in a skill they will otherwise have no good use for. Bluff is a skill which is hard to justify having less than max ranks in if you're going to put any ranks in at all, it just isn't a 'fighter type' skill, whereas Intimidate certainly is. I still don't see how being the most imposing person on the battlefield fails to meet criteria for an ability which makes enemies want to deal with you quickly. A skinny rogue type trying to pull agro will need to bluff it, because they AREN'T an obvious main target otherwise, a hefty bugger with a hammer and a shield need only make themselves obvious to get that agro, so Intimidate makes MORE sense for them. This isn't a skillmonkey or a trickster, it's not a puny mage, it's a big beefy fighter. The big beefy fighter doesn't need to bluff anyone into seeing him as a threat, he just needs to make enough noise to ensure everyone looks at him and sees the obvious threat he already is.