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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 3442359" data-attributes="member: 2525">You made a claim that WOTC has changed their approach to prestige classes, and reduced the focus on organizations.  We are asking you to back up that claim.  Generally speaking, if you are "throwing a bone" to someone, the implication is that you spend very little time on that thing, and do so in a perfunctory way.  That is not what we are seeing however.  In fact, we are seeing the opposite happening in the more recent books.  More time is spent describing the organizations and fleshing them out, and in fact the prestige class details themselves seem more perfunctory than their associated organizations (when they are associated with an organization). Space is the primary resource every publisher has in their books.  It's THE premium.  It translates in a direct way into money spent, and money made.More space in that book is devoted to the Daggerspell Guardians than to either of the particular prestige classes you are mentioning (pg. 31, part of pg. 32, pg. 36, pg 167, 168, 169).  In addition, the beginning part and adaptation part for both classes state plainly that the classes are members of an organization, which you are free to change as you see fit.  But the default is that they are members of that organization, an organization that is part of the core campaign setting of this game, and well detailed in this book.I understand that you feel that leaving out the single line in the requirements section about the organization somehow represents a change, but I think the evidence of just how much detail and time and resources they spent to focus on the organization is much better evidence that the opposite happened - that WOTC thought the organization itself was a key part of the concept, and important to them.  Indeed, it's more detail and focus on the organization that is offered to such organizations in the earlier books by WOTC, and in the DMG where the concept is first introduced.Fair enough.  I suspect you disagree with this statement in the DMG:</blockquote>

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