Favorite Prestige Class

[freyar]

Not gotten to play or DM any (yet!), but I love the horizon walker and elocator on read-through alone.

Question: what PrC would you recommend for a high-INT, low-CHA rogue who wouldn't mind picking up either wizard or psion levels? There's arcane trickster, but I'm not sure the benefits justify the entry cost.

 

[Cactot]

My two favorites:
Druid - Shifter(3.0 and my preferred choice)/MOMF
Wizard - Shadowcraft mage

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Techsmith from Forgotten Realms' Faiths and Pantheons. You got spellcasting progression, your very own golem, and the ability to kick other golems' butts from the Sword Coast to Thay and back.

Thunder Guide from Eberron's Explorer's Handbook. You become a great white hunter, in effect, learning how to deal with all the natives around the Thunder Sea area. You could learn all languages, all cultures, and eventually learn how to fight like a drow with the ferocity of a Seran barbarian and the skill of Argonessan dragon. Or some variation thereof. Lots of room for roleplaying with many built-in hooks for adventure! Also easily adaptable to any other area of Eberron or any other campaign setting.

A couple of my favorites were homebrew PrCs of mine, namely The Bondblade and The Living Spell. A few years back I made nearly two dozen PrCs, but those two were a couple of my better ones.

 

[Darkwolf71]

Dervish. Mobile melee badassery. Gotta love it.

 

[Evilhalfling]

The most fun in play? Shadowdancer, had to work hard to make him effective in combat though, all the combat ability of a rogue w/o sneak attack advancement.
My favoriate part was that he PC stole a gem from the shadow of a teenage girl on the shadow plane. A couple of levels later she shows up looking for it, and begins following him around. generally doing what he asks

The master specialist is good, along with the 3.0 or HR Alienist. The Sublime Cord was great as a class to start in for a highlevel bard. I never tried playing into it, you would have to have it as a goal from very early on to meet the skill requirements. 13 rnks listen? 6 in Prof:astrologer?

Horizonwalker had great flavor, but seemed entirely lacking in mecahnics, the straight ranger or scout loses out with more that a level or 2.

Question: what PrC would you recommend for a high-INT, low-CHA rogue who wouldn't mind picking up either wizard or psion levels? There's arcane trickster, but I'm not sure the benefits justify the entry cost.

Shadowmind or its varients from complete adventurer. Although I dont remember if its Int or CHR based.

 

[EricNoah]

I never used one, either as a player or as a DM. However, I did occasionally strip-mine them for feat and/or spell ideas.

 

[Anson Caralya]

Master Transmogrifist. Oh, the endless possibilities... Never played one, of course, because if I did I would have needed to build an 8MB spreadsheet for the stats of every possible form...

 

[Klaus]

I love the 5-level ones. Like:

Thief-Acrobat (CAdv)
Revenant Blade (PGtEberron)
Wild Plains Outrider (CAdv)
Fortune's Friend (CSco)
Warforged Juggernaut (ECS)
Weretouched Master (ECS)

Others I like include Atavist (RoE), Stormtalon (RoW) and Peregrine Runner (RoS).

 

[Psion]

I always thought the Astral Zealot from Hyperconscious was cool. Think master or mirror images, that puts those images to work.

The Maverick Voidshaper from Untapped Potential looks like a lot of fun.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Off the top of my head, these are some I've had fun with, on whichever side of the screen:

Fleshwarper (Lords of Madness)
Loremaster (DMG)
Pious Templar (Complete Divine)
Demagogue (Dynasties & Demagogues)
Oneiromancer (Occult Lore)

Not without some modification in some cases, mind you.