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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merlion" data-source="post: 700480" data-attributes="member: 10397">Well then as to the first part, it just boils down to opnion...I think it is quality. you dont.  Just dont say its badly designed because some players choose to abuse it and some DMs choose to allow them to.  Prestige classes are a semi optional rule. If its becoming a problem IMO the best way for a DM to deal with it is rule that a PC needs a valid character concept/roleplaying/in world reason for taking...well really any class but especialy a prestige class. If a player is taking Arch Mage AND Incatatrix merely to munchkinize or whatever you want to call it...dont allow THAT PLAYER to do THAT THING. Dont say the classes are badly designed, or shouldnt have been published, or ban all prestige classes(unless this is something you would do anyway.)   I believe that the designers have purposely chosen to worry a lot less about min/maxing....in some ways to almost embrace it rather than try to fight it, or at least not to make decsions based on absuability(not a real word most likely I know). I think they want to open up as many possbilities to players as they can...and if this leads some to powergaming(or whatever) well thats between each individual gaming group.   I am realizing that most players arent like me. My point is, if you dont like someones play style, dont play with them. If a character is broken, look first at the character at and the player.</blockquote>