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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 74561" data-attributes="member: 2205">I think that in many cases published prestige classes aren't much more than bags of tricks, but many others are concepts that can be generic across campaign settings, although they are certainly specific relative to the core classes.Your post almost implies that I shouldn't use any prestige classes, but just look at them and make my own with them as examples.&nbsp; I certainly don't think you need to go so far: just eliminate most of them from the campaign you play unless they fulfill a very special or certain role that's appropriate.&nbsp; Fists of Hextor, for example, may be a perfectly appropriate organization for many campaigns (especially if using the PHB pantheon) and with a name change, they may be appropriate for a ton more.Where prestige classes have a problem, IMO, is where DMs allow any and all prestige classes, and players start gunning for prestige classes willy nilly.&nbsp; I think that needs to be a collaborative effort with the DM: which prestige classes make sense given the campaign, the player's desires and all that.For that matter, though, I think players taking prestige classes is still a bit of a novelty.&nbsp; Most prestige classes turn characters that are already relatively narrow in scope into characters that are really narrow in scope.&nbsp; Prestige classes are really more appropriate for NPCs most of the time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 74561, member: 2205"] I think that in many cases published prestige classes aren't much more than bags of tricks, but many others are concepts that [i]can[/i] be generic across campaign settings, although they are certainly specific relative to the core classes. Your post almost implies that I shouldn't use any prestige classes, but just look at them and make my own with them as examples. I certainly don't think you need to go so far: just eliminate most of them from the campaign you play unless they fulfill a very special or certain role that's appropriate. Fists of Hextor, for example, may be a perfectly appropriate organization for many campaigns (especially if using the PHB pantheon) and with a name change, they may be appropriate for a ton more. Where prestige classes have a problem, IMO, is where DMs allow any and all prestige classes, and players start gunning for prestige classes willy nilly. I think that needs to be a collaborative effort with the DM: which prestige classes make sense given the campaign, the player's desires and all that. For that matter, though, I think players taking prestige classes is still a bit of a novelty. Most prestige classes turn characters that are already relatively narrow in scope into characters that are [i]really[/i] narrow in scope. Prestige classes are really more appropriate for NPCs most of the time. [/QUOTE]

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