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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7044046" data-attributes="member: 5100">Burn them. They have no place in 5E. 90%+ of the benefits are covered by subclasses. Anything that was a 5-level-or-less PrC would be adequately served with a feat or two. Both options would also avoid adding yet another mechanic to the game. That said, PrCs sound like a great "module" for someone to throw up on the DMs Guild. I'd just prefer to nix anything even remotely official.I would be open to re-introducing feat chains, but very, very cautious. The rampant feat list was one of the things that killed 3E, for me. It was problematic from both a choice overload and chasing the gold ring perspective.An over-abundance of sub-classes would also be a concern. I've long maintained that there's a maximum number of options any player can effectively manage. That'll differ from player to player, but official content should follow the 80/20 rule (i.e. aim for the middle ground and let the DMs Guild handle the outliers). Yes, there's a minimum viable number of choices, but we've probably got that covered. My gut says that 15-16 classes would be around the most that should be available, with 20 as an absolute upper bound and the assumption that not all would be used in any given campaign.By virtue of having a second-tier decision, sub-classes greatly expand the options. I think the number is smaller than for top-level classes; say, 6-8 sub-classes before it starts getting unwieldy. That's still 8 x 16 = 128 character options. I'm also assuming that most folks will have a pretty good idea of which sub-class they'll use at character creation, even if they don't get/have to pick until later.Prestige classes typically served three functions in 3E:1) Refine large-grain concepts. That is to say, make a Fighter into a specific kind of Fighter or a Wizard into a specific kind of Wizard. This is exactly what the sub-classes do in 5E. Any PrCs with this purpose would directly compete with them. This would either take up some of the above "options space" or have unintended consequences (i.e. increase the odds of a breaking combination with a sub-class). Bad plan.2) Make certain multi-classing combinations more viable. Generally speaking, this was around spell-casters and should be handled with the 5E multi-classing rules. Do not need.3) Force a trade-off for a set of abilities. Even in 3E, this could have been done with a feat chain. As I said before, I'm dubious of feat chains and don't want to see them come back in a big way, but it would be better to use an existing mechanic.</blockquote>

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