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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 688832" data-attributes="member: 1328">1) How well it stacks up with other classes.Below average. 4. To be honest, I think the waste of a feat on Skill Focus: Knowledge: Arcana (the least useless Knowledge you can blow that feat on, IMO) is a good price for the gained abilities, that seems nice on the paper, but are not that prevalent in games. (See the monk syndrom.) Even if another feat can be gained later, this single requirements has been enough in my experience to turn most character concepts out of that class.2) How often a PC will go with this class.Below average. 4. The shadowdancer, for example, is a more popular class. For mage-style prestige class, incantatrix and elemental savant come more frequently in character project.3) How often an NPC will go with this class.Below average. 3. This class is very flavorful, but is really made for a small elite, the people who value knowledge and wisdom for their own sake, rather than for power. It is a small minority that may feel the calling to this class, and those that fit the requirements are even less common. IMC, outside of some gnome diviners or clerics of knowledge, nearly noone is a loremaster.4) How 'fun' it is to play this class.Average. 5. One's idea of fun is different from another's. I, personnally, would love to play one, if only my wizard who met the prerequisites could get into play again and gain some levels... But it's a question of gaming style -- you won't do kick-in-the-door dungeoncrawl with a loremaster. So, if your idea of fun is Beer the half-orc barbarian with whirlwind attack or Pretzel the smelly dwarf fighter with great cleave, the loremaster may not be for you.5) How much this class adds to the game. Above average. 7. I say that as a DM fleshing out the world and assigning class levels to NPCs. The grandmaster of a spynetwork, the elder of the secluded mystic community, they are truly themselves thanks to this class. On a more PC-centric game, not much.</blockquote>

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