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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1781487" data-attributes="member: 1465">The original idea of Prestige Classes is not the same for AD&amp;D kits. In early 3ed days, a prestige class was always supposed to be tied to an organization which you would become part of through roleplay and in-character actions, that's why having a racial requirement was perfectly acceptable: Arcane Archers could be an elite group in the elven armies, and their training is open only to the best elven warriors.When Monte Cook wrote the DMG he wasn't thinking of WotC publishing hundreds of prestige classes in the following books. He was actually suggesting that every gaming group should have its own designed prestige classes, which means that the DMG ones were basically EXAMPLES. But we know that the first supplements already had many PrCls, which is quite sad in a way because now players have the attitude of looking through a lot of PrCl without even finding the &quot;perfect&quot; one for their PC.I don't see the problem why in a campaign there couldn't be a PrCl with exactly the same features as Arcane Archer but for humans only, tied to a specific kingdom's army for instance. It doesn't have to be printed in a book to be allowed in the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 1781487, member: 1465"] The original idea of Prestige Classes is not the same for AD&D kits. In early 3ed days, a prestige class was always supposed to be tied to an organization which you would become part of through roleplay and in-character actions, that's why having a racial requirement was perfectly acceptable: Arcane Archers could be an elite group in the elven armies, and their training is open only to the best elven warriors. When Monte Cook wrote the DMG he wasn't thinking of WotC publishing hundreds of prestige classes in the following books. He was actually suggesting that every gaming group should have its own designed prestige classes, which means that the DMG ones were basically EXAMPLES. But we know that the first supplements already had many PrCls, which is quite sad in a way because now players have the attitude of looking through a lot of PrCl without even finding the "perfect" one for their PC. I don't see the problem why in a campaign there couldn't be a PrCl with exactly the same features as Arcane Archer but for humans only, tied to a specific kingdom's army for instance. It doesn't have to be printed in a book to be allowed in the game. [/QUOTE]

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