7000 Prestige classes oh my...

[Mercule]

Did anyone else gasp audibly when they read that?

Nope. I stopped indexing feats after Complete Divine. Using only WotC books, and not even all of those (3.5 only, IIRC, and I own nothing FR-related), I had 660+ feats listed. I'm sure that's more than doubled, maybe trebled since then (2 more class books, Eberron, "Races of" books, Draconomicon and its ilk, and throw in the FR stuff). And I'd expect PrCs to be 1/2 to 2/3 of that, based on the trends I saw.

I have no problem believing that WotC has publish over 1000 PrCs for D&D/d20 fantasy. Throw in 3rd party PrCs, and you might actually be able to get to the 7,000 PrCs in the thread title.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Mongoose had two books, Ultimate PrCs, the first is 3.0, the second 3.5.

 

[fl8m]

wow, thanks for all he info. when i run my game i'll definately be hand picking which Prestige Classes i'll allow. with 7000 of them out there i can see how it would be easy to blindside a DM with some strange and terrifying new class

 

[Durandal]

If you're interested, I just finished updating my Excel sheet of PrCs and sources, though that's basically all it is. It comes to 1740 PrCs from ~165 sources. PM or e-mail me, I guess.

 

[Knightfall]

very true, galethorn , i noticed a Prestige class on the back of my McDonalds receipt yesterday.

What was it called... Fist of McFlurry?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Pirate of the Golden ARRR-ches!