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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 1256170" data-attributes="member: 725">You might not have noticed, but Prestige Classes (PrCs) are beginning to become a fading hype...Too often PrCs are the optimum choice, the requirements are far to tied to game mechanics instead of roleplaying requirements. People start to feel that their characters are weak because they haven't taken a PrC, give me one reason why i shouldn't become an Archmage at 13th level, the DMG sure as hell doesn't!PrCs are becomming less, and with less i mean less interesting, they aren't anything special anymore, they are just like a new feat or a new spell, a dime a dozen. You want to know how to make PrCs interesting? Take a look at FFGs Legendary Classes, characters need to fulfill Quests to be able to qualify for the Legendary Classes (the Classes themselves are a bit more powerfull then average, although some of the DMG PrCs are pretty strong all by themselves).Same goes for new Classes, far to often these are nothing more then weak reflections of the other Core Classes, often not very inspiring. Most of these 'new' classes could have been achieved by a combo of feats.Then i come to the feats, these are the new building blocks, with the right combo/string of feats you can pretty much create most of the PCs.I would rather prefer that someone for once disassembled all (ok, most) of the prestige classes and convrted them to feat trees. Maybe even grant people special abilities when they have the right combo of feats (maybe such abilities could be handed out as rewards for quests). If someone else doesn't do this soon, i'll do it myself!</blockquote>

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