Lame Prestige Classes

[Mouseferatu]

That's because Scout is hideously overpowered.

Whu?!

Sorry, not to hijack the hijack , but I can't even remotely get behind this. I've spent a lot of time looking at the scout. I've played the scout.

And while they're a lot of fun, they're not even remotely close to being overpowered. I'd have done just as well, if not better, in most of our encounters (fights and otherwise) if I'd been a rogue.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

As crass (and lame) as this statement may be, I can not help but find great humor in a guy going by the name "ForceUser" lamenting his inability to choke someone at a distance.

I will state, for the record, that I find your assertion amusing. Well noticed!

 

[Psion]

Though the idea of an assassin(or name him something else, but he's still a trained killer) having to carry a spellbook is also sort of silly.

Since he doesn't have to carry it around after he prepared spells, it's not silly at all.

But it's just a little too convenient that a mode of magic that is normally reserved for those born with the ability to use it (spontaneous casting) is granted assassins on a silver platter just because it would be more convenient.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

But it's just a little too convenient that a mode of magic that is normally reserved for those born with the ability to use it (spontaneous casting) is granted assassins on a silver platter just because it would be more convenient.

Two points:

1. Bards are born with the ability to use it?

2. Perhaps, once meeting the prereqs of the Assassin PrC, the PC is initiated into the order. Part of the initiation process involves bathing the supplicant in the blood of the innocent and the blood of the guilty three times on Midsummer's Night, symbolizing the requirement that the supplicant no longer care for such mundane trifles as guilt or innocence. A side effect of the ritual is an awakening of the latent magical energies which suffuse the entire world, and thus all creatures that live upon it, and an imbuing of the knowledge on how to channel them for foul purposes.

 

[Psion]

Assuming that's Open Content, is there a link you might provide to a description of the class? Or could you provide a bare-bones overview here? I'm always on the lookout for solid assassin-oriented classes (base and PrC both).

It is open content. In essense, take the assassin, and replace it's magic ability with sneaky tricks, like the ability to conceal weapons that are very difficult to find, and selectable abilities like rogues get at high levels (but midly different).

It's an ENPub product:
http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=313&products_id=96&

 

[Crothian]

But it's just a little too convenient that a mode of magic that is normally reserved for those born with the ability to use it (spontaneous casting) is granted assassins on a silver platter just because it would be more convenient.

no more then people multi classing into Sorcerer or bard.

 

[Waldorf]

Prestige classes blow. They were made up for anime fanboys that spend too much time imagining final fantasy scenarios.

I never allow them in my games, and my players like that just fine.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Prestige classes blow. They were made up for anime fanboys that spend too much time imagining final fantasy scenarios.

I can't tell if you're serious.

And, if you are, I'm not certain how you came to this conclusion, since there aren't any Final Fantasy games that work in the same method of D&D's Prestige Classes.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Prestige classes blow. They were made up for anime fanboys that spend too much time imagining final fantasy scenarios.

I never allow them in my games, and my players like that just fine.

Wow. I'm an anime fandboy and a Final Fantasy player.

Too bad I hate FF, and have rarely found an anime I like. Ditto for most of the folks I play with.

Way to generalize, W.

 

[Turjan]

no more then people multi classing into Sorcerer or bard.

But that's one of the principal problems I see in 3e; the flavor text often doesn't fit the mechanics. I have a similar problem with the bard's spontaneous spellcasting like with the assassin's. The bard is a dilettante; the image of someone scraping together a few spells in his spellbook made much more sense to me.

Prestige classes blow. They were made up for anime fanboys that spend too much time imagining final fantasy scenarios.

You know, this statement is just so anime! j/k