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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arken" data-source="post: 1561892" data-attributes="member: 3469">I completely agree, I like to use prestige classes to give a character the same specificity of personality in combat as they have in character interaction and 'roleplaying'. In my game I would much rather that a wizard that specialised in summoning winged creatures from the far realms specifically had mechanics that set him apart from every other wizard (and even every other alienist) - by doing this the unique character that the player creates is unique not only in the way they are played. The PrC just acts as an emphasis and a confirmation of the character concept aimed for. For this reason I only ever use the mechanics of a class in question and overlay a background or reasoning for the abilities that is specific to the character.For example the red wizard (of Thay). The class abilities do not demand that the DM only use the class for teh specific original use that the class served in the FR. If I had a lawful good character that had a background and story line which could be represented by the red wizard then they can take the red wizard. Doing so would not mean that they had a direct campaign link (like an organisation etc) with every other character in the world/campaign that also happened to have the abilites of a red wizard as those abilities might represent something else entirely for someone else.</blockquote>