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<blockquote data-quote="dkyle" data-source="post: 6061903" data-attributes="member: 70707">Ugh... Prestige Classes were just terrible design. They took 3E's already broken multiclass rules, and just blew them up further.And I hate baking story-based prerequisites into the rules. Giving the DM story hooks is great, but they should be ideas, nothing more. The rules should only limit access to mechanics when necessary for maintaining balance.Paragon Paths are much better. They should do those instead.This isn't bad, but mostly because your PrC ends up being a lot more like Paragon Paths then PrC. Yeah, you can take it before a given level, but the important thing is that it's parallel to, not instead of, taking your class levels.And if it's mostly-fluff benefits for mostly-fluff requirements, I'm fine with that too. It's when crunchy combat mechanics are gated by baked-in fluff that it gets problematic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dkyle, post: 6061903, member: 70707"] Ugh... Prestige Classes were just [I]terrible[/I] design. They took 3E's already broken multiclass rules, and just blew them up further. And I [I]hate[/I] baking story-based prerequisites into the rules. Giving the DM story hooks is great, but they should be ideas, nothing more. The rules should only limit access to mechanics when necessary for maintaining balance. Paragon Paths are much better. They should do those instead. This isn't bad, but mostly because your PrC ends up being a lot more like Paragon Paths then PrC. Yeah, you can take it before a given level, but the important thing is that it's parallel to, not instead of, taking your class levels. And if it's mostly-fluff benefits for mostly-fluff requirements, I'm fine with that too. It's when crunchy combat mechanics are gated by baked-in fluff that it gets problematic. [/QUOTE]

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