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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7682525" data-attributes="member: 1465">By the way,   [MENTION=3586]MerricB[/MENTION] excellent article as usual <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=":)" />It made me think that really there is ONE simple idea that can help against multiple problems at once... just design only HIGH-LEVEL prestige classes.Just think of it, if we only had 5-levels prestige classes requiring minimum character level 15th, then:- you could design very high-level special abilities associated to each prestige class (instead of low-level abilities which cost you giving up higher-level abilities later)- you would know a lot more exactly at which character level a PC would enter the prestige class and earn those special abilities- it would be much less likely to see players build crazy combos, because there just isn't level space for too many prestige classes per PC- prestige classes would actually feel 'prestigious'This Runecaster archetype probably is not a good example of something that should be a prestige class, because its features aren't particularly high-level after all. They aren't even much of a progression if you look closely, they mostly just develop 'horizontally', granting you more runes. It would be so much better to implement this Runecaster as a feat that can be taken multiple times.</blockquote>

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