Choose your Favorite Core/SRD Prestige Class(es)

[Insight]

I'd be interested to see what EN World thinks are the most popular of the Prestige Classes presented in the Core Rules/SRD. These are the Prestige Classes found in the 3.5 DMG as well as the latest version of the SRD.

I'm thinking not only in terms of playability, but also utility both for PCs and NPCs in your game.

 

[diaglo]

Paladin

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

EK and MT. They're a patch for a problem, and a good one, too. Assassin's alright. So's shadowdancer, but most of the DMG PrCs don't particularly enthuse me.

 

[MetalBard]

The Duelist has always been one of my favorites, since Sword and Fist came out.

 

[Li Shenron]

I have always thought that the Shadowdancer is the perfect example about how a PrCl should be designed.

 

[malien]

I have always thought that the Shadowdancer is the perfect example about how a PrCl should be designed.

Completely agree on this one here. Unlike most PrCs that are just 'here's how you do something better than a character of the same core class that just stuck in the core class' it really presents something that is different and unique across the board.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I can find good uses for pretty much all the PrCs. Even Setting Specific ones aren't too hard to adapt to my homebrew.

 

[Particle_Man]

Duelists are popular? That was a surprise. It is by far the weakest of the DMG prestige classes. I guess some people really really really like the style and don't care about the mechanics.

Note: I am talking about the nerfed 3.5 duelist, not the sword and fist duelist.

 

[Insight]

I have always thought that the Shadowdancer is the perfect example about how a PrCl should be designed.

I feel the same way about Arcane Archer, for the same reasons. They give the character specific abilities that add to what they already do, but the class isn't just a grab-bag of class abilities that you could find elsewhere. If gives very specific abilities to archers. Not sure why it's designed only for elves and half-elves, however. Doesn't seem to be any justification for that in the class itself (now the flavor text may be a different matter).

 

[Thanee]

Arcane Trickster is by far my favorite core PrC.

The honorable mention went to the Eldritch Knight.

Bye
Thanee