I need your recommendations for Prestige Classes

[shurai]

The key point is to ensure that the PrCs that you do use have a reason for being, rather than being tossed into the world willy-nilly. If you don't have any insane alien-summoning cults, for instance, you probably won't get much use out of the alienist. However, niches like the archer, the mounted knight, etc are encountered in just about all campaign worlds; and for these more conventional niches, you might as well use the existing PrCs.

Yeah absolutely! In either case, prestige classes should enhance the game world by enriching the cultures therein. My favorite approach is actually very similar to your Brittania work: a combination of prepublished work and custom-designed stuff too.

Eh. Try AC 30, in both cases.

30 is more of a challenge, to be sure, but that would be wandering away from my point that the Duelist isn't overpowered unless something strange is going on in the ability scores. I actually rather like the concept, and am looking forward to seeing one in my campaign.

Sorry for not being more clear!

-S

 

[GrimJesta]

Personally, I feel that most PrCs are meant to make NPCs and Villains seem a breed apart from PCs. But that being said, there are alot of them that are very cool for PCs to take. I cannot offer advice on what I think is good and what is not, as all PrCs are relative to the campaign setting and storyline going on. Alot of people seem to not like the Inquisitor, but if the game you are running is based heavily on religion and demonic invasion of a sorts, then this class is good for the game. Alot of epople seem to like the Duellist (me included), but what if the game setting/storyline makes this class almost silly to take? Then it is not a good class.

Now, there are a few PrCs that I feel do not fit into ANY game:
The Oozemaster. What the %$#& were they thinking here? It makes a great villain, but man is it a dumb PC class.

The Hexer. Another class thats cool for Villains, but what a waste of space for PCs.

Fang of Lloth. Silly. Very silly. "Hey, Im turning into a giant friggin spider!"

Hunter of the Dead: Ok, its a cool class, but I feel that KenzerCos Players Guide has a much better Undead Hunter in it (The Order of the Slayer).

Alienist. This belongs in Cthulu, not D&D. Its too "out there" for my tastes.

The Blade Singer. A boring class that could have had alot of flavor, but failed. Didnt they redo this class and put it on the WotC site?

Dragon Desciple. Too broken.

The Wayfarer Guide. Like the Blade Singer, it could have been cool, but isnt.

Drunken Master. Broken. No really. Look at the abilities. Its too powerful.

Like I said, this is all relative to my game, my style of playing and my bias. Except the Oozemaster. I dont know ANYONE that likes that as a PC class...

-=Grim=-

 

[Voadam]

an alienist prc gives a great hook for wanting to check out the goings on in RttTEE.

I like arcane archers, duelists, loremasters, archmages, the harper mage, red wizard, arcane trickster, bladesinger, the sword mage from T&B (forgot the name), shadowdacer, but I dislike the gnome technologist (flavor wise) and all the divine mage/warrior, thief etc from forgotten realms, their powers are just wierd and do not make sense or are just not cool. Of course, the FR specific ones need a lot of story to fit into a straight greyhawk RttTTEE.