Qualifying for PrC as Alchemist or Gunslinger.

[geekgumbo]

Ok so I think I know the answers to this, but I'll throw this out to see what you think:
1) Does an alchemists ability to create elixers allow them to qualify for "Arcane Trickster"?
2) By the rules an arcane archer must use bows, but is there any reason that a GS/Arcane could not take the Arcane archer PrC, just replacing "bow" with "gun"? I'd think it would be a bit OP, but I'd appreciate your thoughts. Thanks.

[LazarX]

1. Elixirs are not spells

2. There's this slight thing called rules getting in your way. It's up to your GM if he wants to allow a variance. Or you could just play a spellslinger mage.

[blahpers]

1. No.
2. You answered your own question.

If you want to be able to do this and are curious about how balanced it would be, that would be a question for the S/HR/H forum. (I would have no problem with it.)