Is anyone taking 'prestige' racial levels from Un.Arc?

[Driddle]

Same question as the header: Anyone taking prestige class racial levels as outlined in Unearthed Arcana? If so, how's it workin' for ya? And if not, why?

 

[Mark Hope]

Yes, paragon classes are seeing use in my Dark Sun game, but not the ones from UA. We are using DS-specific paragon classes and a couple of players have used them (specifically Mul Paragon and Pterran Paragon). They seem popular, especially the stat boosts, and I would certainly devise paragon classes for any other setting that I used. For my homebrew, for example, I intend to write up some paragon classes for that setting's races.

 

[ForceUser]

Yes, we use them. Human racial paragon is quite popular.

 

[wingsandsword]

I've seen Racial Paragon Levels get some use.

It's one easy way to give core races an ECL, like if a DM wants elves in his setting to be more Tolkienesque and "greater", then he can say that elves must start with all 3 racial levels, so they are effectively ECL+3.

 

[Jubilee]

I have a half-elf paladin who took the three levels of half-elf paragon - and I'm glad I did it. Gave me another feat, a stat boost, and some more versitility in skills.

/ali

 

[Sanackranib]

yes. those rock

 

[Psion]

Prestige racial levels are a concept in Wildwood by bastion press. There are no prestige racial levels in Unearthed Arcana.

As for paragon levels, they are part of a tool I use to make long lived races like elves and dwarves make more sense in my game. Most such NPCs of such races have a a few racial levels to repesent their racial flavor and competance of their years.

 

[MadMaxim]

Oh yeah, the Dwarven Paragon racial levels have seen a lot of use in my games. They're quite popular and with good reason. I think they're great.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Paragon classes are certainly a unique way to increase you racial abilities. I have designed quite a few of them for my campaigns.

 

[Driddle]

Prestige racial levels are a concept in Wildwood by bastion press. There are no prestige racial levels in Unearthed Arcana.

Cute. A prestige class accessible only by racial prerequisite is, indeed, a racial prestige, *formally* titled as such or not.

It's one easy way to give core races an ECL, like if a DM wants elves in his setting to be more Tolkienesque and "greater", then he can say that elves must start with all 3 racial levels, so they are effectively ECL+3.

Nice idea. I hadn't considered race levels as an ECL equalizer.