They tested a prestige class in an early UA. The response at the time was an overwhelming “no thanks”.
yeah it was something I read they did not work with this edition hence the idea of a clip-on top prestige class.They tested a prestige class in an early UA. The response at the time was an overwhelming “no thanks”.
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no idea what the top means, but others have mentioned stronghold gameplay would that not be linked?
Level Up has something much like the 4e Warlord in its Marshal class, and comprehensive stronghold rules for all classes.
As I was given to understand, spheres are more...thematic and broad, as opposed to domains, which are more conceptual and narrow. More like schools than domains. So you wouldn't have a Death sphere, but you might have a Domination sphere that has such things.
I'm not sure what you mean by "clip on," but if you're interested in how I would do it, I wrote one you can check out. I have never found a group to let me playtest it (spent a year looking, after repeated failure I gave up.) It needs to be playtested before I can be truly confident that it is balanced, but in the absence of that, I am as confident as I can be that it isn't broken.
That analysis is not actually supported by what we heard. They told us it wasn't something people were looking for at this time. We have no idea if it was a huge universally negative response or "eh we just don't care for it." Reading in stuff like the vehemence or volume of response is unwise without actual data to back it up.They tested a prestige class in an early UA. The response at the time was an overwhelming “no thanks”.
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Prestige classes always were, in some sense, just multiclass dips that didn't go all the way to max level. For that reason, their "low level" features could get a bit out of hand, since the total character level could be assumed to be middle to high.
There was clearly enough of a negative response that they dropped it right there and then and have not attempted it again in the many years since (unlike, say, psionics, which they put effort into multiple times before deciding to mostly give up on it due to not getting a positive enough response for anything other than the subclasses that appeared in Tasha's).
Divine Spheres was an interesting concept that didn't play out well in game. As a priest, your spell list was limited to the spells under the spheres your deity had. This meant that each deity's priests could be slightly different from every other deity's priests. However, certain key spells (healing) were restricted, when they were a primary point of the class. To properly implement it, you'd have to move healing to become a class feature or provide a lot of non-magical healing options (like 5E did). Additionally, you'd probably need 5-10 times the number of spells, just so that every character could have sufficient spells at each level to choose from.
