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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 181612" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!Indeed, you understand my explanation quite well!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Yes, I have used the Feat Master to excellent effect. Gradually, the players are warming up to it. They like it a lot, but are cautious, as I have been cautious in implementing the Feat Master into the campaign. Actually, they are a diverse group, who are often torn between the following options:(1) Gain a Prestige Class. Most of my prestige classes are quite powerful, and very demanding. They represent special groups, intense training, and distinct lifestyle changes that noone considers lightly!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I don't have players gathering up multiple prestige classes in my campaign, either. Thus, prestige classes are a serious change in lifestyle and career focus.(2) Gaining additional standard classes: Like Fighter/Ranger, Ranger/Rogue, Rogue/Wizard, Ranger/Cleric, Fighter/Rogue, Barbarian/Ranger, and so on. Just sticking with the standard class combinations can be incredibly rewarding, and very flexible. These kinds of career additions are always very tempting!(3) Blending a standard class with Feat Master, and additions of any of the above options; This of course, finely focuses, but at the same time limits, the character's development in distinctive ways. It is attractive, but especially so for characters who have definite, specific visualizations for their character.(4) Single-class specialty: Believe it or not, some of my players are quite content with just staying the course with a single standard class. This provides a distinctive "generic" flavour, and yet, provides scope for a sort of "generalist mastery" of the class in question that remains distinctively attractive. It sounds in many ways to be paradoxical, and yet it remains true. The single class route offers a depth and broad mastery of a particular class that, despite the range of really cool options out there, that in many ways is unmatched.It's interesting, because I often wonder if my campaign is "inbred" in the sense that I don't have hordes of new people coming and going every two-four months. I generally have the same group of players that, with some rotation, I've been playing with for many years. I don't like to invite just anyone to my game, because without exception, I try and become friends with everyone who plays with me. This means that the friends and relatives that I play with all like me, and each other, and all get along quite well. They also realize that I, as DM, am the Lord and Master of all creation in the game, and so they know not to rebel against the "Righteous Imperium."<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I wonder sometimes if I'm missing out on many of the wierdo's, power-gamers, and trolls who don't have a clue about role-playing, and seek to pervert and abuse every possible thing in the campaign?<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />This "state of affairs"--if you will, means that I, as the DM, have such trust built up, that I can create all sorts of classes, spells, mechanics, or whatever, and I don't have to worry too much about it being abused or trashed in some way, you know? I know that certain things will work in my campaign, and with my players, with *me* as the DM. Sometimes, I wonder if some of my ideas wouldn't work with horrible players, or with a different DM who didn't know how to implement certain ideas and concepts that I have designed. Things like special prestige classes and such have to be developed very carefully, and implemented cautiously. I have a Ranger prestige class that is very specialized, and available to characters in the campaign. I have many other prestige classes that I have developed, from undead vampire classes, to special elven classes, to classes only available in the Vallorean Empire. Most of them are entirely original, or in some cases, I've taken the framework of some of the prestige classes that have been published, and modified them heavily, to become something else entirely.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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