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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2438687" data-attributes="member: 14159">Well, since people keep wanting new prestige classes, they're going to keep making them.  They filled up on basic, utilitarian PrC's that were widely adaptable and did things you couldn't do with core classes quite a while back.  However, organization related classes can be nearly unlimited, since every new little organization, order, guild can have it's own class which is almost identical to a core class, except this one has a different name.Now, organization-specific classes have their role, if it's a major organization that influences the entire setting or campaign, and they have powers or abilities beyond that of normal characters, and as a way for a GM to "legitimately" give a villain a pile of special powers.  Should a local thieves guild or minor order of knighthood with only a few dozen (at most) members have it's own PrC, especially when they gain really nothing distinct from a rogue or fighter?  Probably not.  Personally, I love the variety of PrC's, the options they provide, but the poor design they have sometimes hamstrings the concept.</blockquote>