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<blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 315175" data-attributes="member: 537">Well, if you go purely by what's in the books, you don't really have a lot to work with. What do we know about Boromir, in terms of concrete abilities? He's tough, he fights orcs, and it takes a lot to kill him. This is pretty vague material for basing an entire prestige class on. Ideally, a prestige class should represent a specific character concept, organisation or skillset. Boromir is basically a really badass fighter; you don't need a prestige class just for that. &quot;Son of Gondor&quot; is just an honorific for any (male) person from Gondor, so a prestige class based around that would be like a prestige class based on being a Cormyrian or a Greyhawk citizen. Not very sensible, nu?Now you certainly could come up with a &quot;White Tower guard&quot; or &quot;Ithilien ranger&quot; prestige class; these are slightly more specific roles than just &quot;son of Gondor&quot;. However, if you want to come up with abilities to fill out 10 levels, or even 5 levels, you're going to have to think laterally.Also, if you're thinking only in terms of how the result would fit into your game, as opposed to building a completely new setting, you don't really have to make up new prestige classes from scratch. There are already plenty of guardsman, archer or captain PrCs out there. Just file off the serial numbers and make whatever changes are necessary to fit your own game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hong, post: 315175, member: 537"] Well, if you go purely by what's in the books, you don't really have a lot to work with. What do we know about Boromir, in terms of concrete abilities? He's tough, he fights orcs, and it takes a lot to kill him. This is pretty vague material for basing an entire prestige class on. Ideally, a prestige class should represent a specific character concept, organisation or skillset. Boromir is basically a really badass fighter; you don't need a prestige class just for that. "Son of Gondor" is just an honorific for any (male) person from Gondor, so a prestige class based around that would be like a prestige class based on being a Cormyrian or a Greyhawk citizen. Not very sensible, nu? Now you certainly could come up with a "White Tower guard" or "Ithilien ranger" prestige class; these are slightly more specific roles than just "son of Gondor". However, if you want to come up with abilities to fill out 10 levels, or even 5 levels, you're going to have to think laterally. Also, if you're thinking only in terms of how the result would fit into your game, as opposed to building a completely new setting, you don't really have to make up new prestige classes from scratch. There are already plenty of guardsman, archer or captain PrCs out there. Just file off the serial numbers and make whatever changes are necessary to fit your own game. [/QUOTE]

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