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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MonkeezOnFire" data-source="post: 7044379" data-attributes="member: 6784845">I don't think prestige classes will be good for 5e. The multiclassing rules in 5e are bare bones and often involve power trade offs that players may not be comfortable making for their characters. Instead I'd like to see the templates system from Pathfinder (not sure if D&D 3 or 3.5 had this). Basically a template has a bunch of features that replace features from your base class for something or relatively equal power. It allows customization and even allows you to take away some of the stuff from a base class that goes against the new flavour. A lot of prestige classes were basically membership in a certain organization. I don't think it's too far fetch'd for a DM to award cool features to a character for rising through the ranks of a faction. It's not much different to awarding a magic item or boon from the DMG. In addition more PCs options can be added through feats, backgrounds and spells (some spells in 5e are straight up class features from previous editions, find familiar coming to mind).</blockquote>