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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 74871" data-attributes="member: 114">I, too, like to stick with the general principle of Prestige Classes being world-building, campaign specific things.I started off by creating a few specific prestige classes for my campaign - Chosen of Asura, Tillanian Dragonfriends, Southlander Honourbound Knights and Damdzan mercenaries (all on my web page below). I plan to introduce prestige classes for Grey Lawgivers, Lord High Priests and Southlander Nobles.Having looked at the various supplements and dragon articles there are a few (very few) prestige classes which I've built into my world, because they fit specific niches. I've added the Duellist (who becomes a Sword Coast Duellist), The Alienist (because they fit right in with a villanous organisation I already have) and the iaijutsu master (who becomes an Asuran Sword Saint).From the standard books Assassins are included as Mendonnan Assassins - not a generic class, but from a specific location.The very fact that the class books are aimed at players (brown cover) rather than DMs (blue cover) unfortunately accentuates the idea of generic prestige classes for any player rather than world-specific prestige classes (unless you are running Greyhawk - in which case you might have an annoyance of prestige classes introduced you don't like very much).One last point - the relationship of prestige classes to base classes is akin to that of base classes to multiclass characters. Multiclasses have a wider breadth but less strength than a base class, typically. The base classes in turn have wider breadth but less strength in one specific focus than a prestige class. In their own particular field it is reasonable to expect the prestige class to outshine all others. Outside that field he doesn't compare so well.Cheers</blockquote>

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