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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troll's Choice" data-source="post: 88663" data-attributes="member: 2461">Hi, everyone! Holy cats, there's alot of replies to this thread. I won't be able to reply in more depth until tonight, but my primary thought was that a prestige class could be transformed into a viable character class, and still be a viable alternative. It can be tricky. You don't want to frontload the class, or else everyone will take a level in it, like people do with the ranger (my players do that, and I can't really condemn them for that). Nor should it be too strong or too weak. It needs to have just a wide enough focus to provide an acceptable, enjoyable contribution to the adventuring party.How can we make that happen?Well....It depends on the class.Let's say you have a "Holy Liberator". This prestige class from "Defenders of the Faith" is interesting. It has a nice feel to it It's like the chaotic good version of the paldin, without being a CLONE of the paladin.Could the Holy Liberator's powers be spread out over 20 levels?Maybe.Could a Holy Liberator gain her powers at 1st level?Only if his power progression were suitably (and subtly) altered to be in more balance with the paladin. Front-loading would have to be avoided at all costs.I'd respond to each you guys, individually, RangerWickett, WaterRabbit, Tsyr, Olidammara, Joshua Dyal, and everybody else. I don't mean to leave anybody out but I've lingered too long. I gotta get outta here. I'll probably be on here in another five or six hours.My last point is that I'm not so concerned with metagaming. I'm more concerned with "character concepts" for roleplaying purposes, and sometimes the existing character classes just don't cover all of the bases. We'll delve into that soon. Anyway, thanks for all the stimulating replies! Later! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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