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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krug" data-source="post: 2009215" data-attributes="member: 2141">The PDF version of Librum Equitis Vol I is a collection of Prestige Classes. There's been much debate about the usefulness of PrCs, but I personally feel they can and do add to the flavour of the game. Librum Equitis has some hits and misses; some PrCs seem quite mechanical and workmanlike, while others brim with creativity and possibilities. With the number of PrCs already out there, it's inevitable that there's PrC 'clog'. Many of them are devised around the same idea, and the DM should make a choice as to which to allow. There's no visuals to speak of which is all right. What does irk is the slipshod editing. Some of the charts lack a '+' before BAB and saves, while abilities aren't always listed in the order they are received, which is the standard. It doesn't doom the product, but some consistency would have been great.It's a mixed bag as far as creativity and originality goes for the PrCs in LE. The Corpulent is a servant of the God of greed who grows larger and heavier with each level. The New Treant is a druid-type who eventually assumes the form, surprise surprise, of a Treant. On the other hand, you also get about three variations of missile/archer based PrCs, and you can even play spot the difference with the Military Archer and the Longbowman. The Feral Ravager and Raserei (which has a special ability inexplicably called 'Rage Baby') also seem to fit the same basic mould. Many of the abilities of the PrCs might have been better served as feats, such as two-fisted casting or the various group-fighting abilities of the Phalanx. Some of the PrCs lack flavour or distinguishing abilities to make them worth the while, and are destined to be Rule Zeroed, and most of these would fit NPCs better than they would PCs.It's unlikely that you'll find all of the prestige classes useful, but some are definitely interesting. For $5 it's hard to go wrong but I'd still hesitate to recommend this product. Many ideas have been done better elsewhere and some PrCs just seem to be filler material, and if you're going to pay to print out the PDF document take a read through first and decide which ones to take.</blockquote>

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