Recent content by SkidAce

I understand your points, but the person I quoted was talking about homogeneity, so I was wondering about their viewpoint. You thoughts also make sense and help me see the span of influences from a different viewpoint.

/grins proudly

That tongue works it!

I agree and feel that was a big missed opportunity.

An honest question to gain perspective.... How much does "homogeneity" matter for you? It seems to matter on the internet, cause many of us read the class guides with letter ranks and color codes, and over time as you say they "home in" on certain builds. While they were doing that our group...

We only allow two class multiclassing as a general rule.

I concur and should have read the thread ahead of time.

You are correct in that people can get obsessed with chains and choices. Here's why we normally dont run into that problem (and it colors our way of thinking about stuff that would be bloat to other folks People gain Prestige Classes/Feat Chains organically, or conceptually. "Hey that BBG...

I certainly try to keep them of theme and optional, like the original (?) vision of Prestige Classes.

Feat TREE definitely better. Some of our magic style feats are only two feats, so thats not so bad.

Totally agree, especially for organizational "prestige" classes. Buy into the org as much as you would like. Some orgs wont let you "buy" the feat unless you have enough renown. We also use feat chains to simulate learning special magic styles. Works better than subclasses...you can only...

saves versus DM glare, at disadvantage...

Yeah!

I'm not a rocket scientist, but could they both have been at the other ends of their orbits from earth...putting them in the same direction relatively?

Right? (emphasis mine)