How many Prestiege classes in your D&D 3.0 / 3.5 game?

[Viktyr Gehrig]

It's a lot easier to ban specific classes than to come up with a list of allowed classes.

I run a Gestalt game with 20 allowed base classes. Prestige classes are far more open, but I disallow any of the multi-spellcaster PrCs, and a handful of PrCs that I consider disruptive or unbalanced for other reasons.

 

[PieAndDragon]

I have about 40 Prestige classes written up from various sources. But if a player comes up with a concept, or finds an interesting prestige class, I'll take a look.

Armsmaster, Duellist, Dragon Rider, Elemental Guard, Gladiator, Master of the Arrow, Master Thrower, Oathsworn, Packlord, Spellarcher, Shadow Hunter, Slayer of the Unliving, Warrior of the Pack, Assassin, Diplomat, Dragon Disciple, Living Tattoo, Red Mystic, Shadow Dancer, Skald, Spymaster, Streetfighter, Thief-Acrobat, Tong Ninja, Arcane Trickster, Archmage, Blighter, Deathmaster, Eldritch Knight, Fistarka's Chosen, Greenservant, Hierophant, Immortal Savant, Loremaster, Moon Savant, Mystic Theurge, Red Wizard, Spellsword, Thaumaturgist, Totem Witch

I also allow racial levels for all my races, which has proved quite popular with players.

 

[Bront]

I'll let in any that I approve of ahead of time. I have yet to run into the issue other than in my Eberron game, where there are PrCs that people can get into after 4th level. In other games I've played in, I was the only one who took even 1 PrC, and that was the Elderich Knight, though someone else took a few racial levels.

There's a wide selection out there, and I don't mind modifying them to fit a need in the game for an NPC or a PC, because they can be fun, and that's the point of the game.

 

[Thanee]

I do that on a one-by-one basis. Less work that way. But I usually allow most of the classes from official sources.

Bye
Thanee

 

[DragonLancer]

I'm currently working on a list of suitable PrC's for my next (Greyhawk) campaign, and heres what I have approved so far. Still need to go through the other Complete guides though.

Arcane Archer, Archmage, Beastmaster, Blackguard, Colourless Adept, Darkrunner, Divine Agent, Dragonslayer, Duelist, Dwarven Defender, Eldritch Knight, Green Knight, Hierophant, Highland Stalker, Keeper of the Cerulean Sign, Knight of the Iron Glacier, Knight of the Realm, Knight Templar, Loremaster, Master of Many Forms, Metamind, Reliquarian, Shadowbane Inquisitor, Spymaster, Voice of the Land, Warmind.

This list doesn't include monster only PrC's.

 

[Psion]

I have a continually growing PrC list, but it sorts things into recommend, "yeah, okay, I guess", modified, and outright banned.

But no, no hard limit; the River of Worlds campaign encompasses dozens of worlds, and there is a great variety of potential specialists and cabals that are represented by PrCs. The list is more about identifying which PrCs are particularly good for the campaign concept and which ones have questionable mechanics good or bad (you don't know how many PrCs I haves seen that make you give up a spellcasting level to give you +1 casting level with a particular school... ).

 

[James Heard]

The only thing hard limited in my games is my time and patience - or lack of. I'm open to just about any presentation of a PrC if it makes sense as sold to me, to any level I can imagine. If I had a hundred players and they all gave me brilliant reasons why their characters should all have 100 different PrCs I'd allow them all and a 100 more the next day if they wanted and sold me again.

 

[ThirdWizard]

My players ask and I either approve or disapprove. No running list.

 

[Staffan]

I have an old list of books allowed, with a list of prestige classes that are specifically NOT allowed. I need to update it to cover Complete Divine, Arcane and Adventurer, the Races books, and maybe Hyperconscious too; currently it only covers the core books, Eberron, XPH and Complete Warrior.

 

[Maliki]

When I DM'd 3E I allowed pretty much anything(Big mistake, as a lot of it didn't fit into my world) I am starting to play in a new campaign and the DM said 0 prestige classes, which is fine by me.

I think if I was ever to run another 3E game(note likely) I would limit the prestige classes to ones that I select before the campaign even kicks off.