5 Level Prestige Classes - Love or Hate?

[Jraynack]

What is everybody's thoughts on 5 level prestige classes rather than 10 level prestige classes?

 

[Alzrius]

I personally like them. They represent a smaller deviation from a path you're already comfortable with, which is reassuring, and seem more manageable. Plus it's easier to get to the nice endcap ability.

 

[The_Warlock]

I prefer them. For my home campaign, I tend to rework most 10 level PrCs into 5 or 6 level classes that offer a set of choices at each level rather than giving everything over 10 levels.

Definitely more manageable for the PCs, allows for more interesting multiclassing as they can take organizationala dn non-organizational based PrCs more easily to blend into a new character concept, and if a PC needs to actually take a level of a class they don't have to meet the requirements, it usually still leaves them plenty of levels to achieve culmination of the PrC.

 

[Jraynack]

Thanks a bunch on the feedback- the thread also continues here:

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=197424&page=1&pp=40