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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ergeheilalt" data-source="post: 1043430" data-attributes="member: 3460">Sorry to bust your example there, but a Dragon Disciple has to be able to cast spells without preparing them...As for the idea of the Eldritch Knight, I really enjoy it. Flavor is all well and good - and perfectly acceptable to add - but when it come to sword swingin', ranged touch attacks ... the EK will rock <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />. If you need flavor, make the Eldritch Knights an order of actual Knights and tack on an Alignment requirement. Give it a back story, a history, a council, a dogma. The comparison between the Eldritch Knight and the Assassin was ludicrous. Okay, the Assassin gains Death attack. Woopdee do, not flavorful IMO. Flavor gives a prestige class character. Would you rather read a book about how an Assassin kills people to gain Death Attack, or how a fighter/mage seeks to find the Order of the Knights Arcane and qualify for training. To assume that flavor and mechanics must sync up with special names is silly. You could  take every slot where it says "+1 spell casting level" and stick in something cleverly named that does the same thing. At least they didn't make the vain attempt at disguising the EK's spell casting for something else - think that you, the reader, would be stupid enough to believe it.Even if they did give the EK some fluffy backstory, half the DMs out there would change it to something entirely different so it would fit in their game. Flavor goes beyond abilities, and reflects character and aspirations.Erge</blockquote>

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