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<blockquote data-quote="Fiendish Dire Weasel" data-source="post: 1700098" data-attributes="member: 12951">I think the substitusion levels were bad because it is basiclly setting up a bad precident that doesn't support their own products. Adding substitusion levels only to the core classes means any other base classes (past, present and future) don't get this feature unless the DM/players make up their own. Prestige classes could be designed around play concepts and be made available to different classes (for example: They could do a PrC based on &quot;sneakyness&quot; so a Rogue, Monk, Bard or Ranger who wanted to focus on planar sneakyness could take it... but so could a Swashbuckler or whatever there will be in the upcoming Complete Adventurer).I agree, more PrCs isn't somthing I look forward to, at the same time, I believe well made PrCs can do a lot for the game. It's a &quot;quality over quantity&quot; thing for me I guess.Anyways, I think one of the main reasons I disliked the Planar Handbook is it was full of bad ideas that I fear (some of which are proving true with the Races of Stone previews) are going to turn into precident and then turn into a continuing line of unfortunate rules... Interestingly, almost every new WotC book I buy (Eberron being a glaring exception) make me more interested in playing/running games with only the 3 core books <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fiendish Dire Weasel, post: 1700098, member: 12951"] I think the substitusion levels were bad because it is basiclly setting up a bad precident that doesn't support their own products. Adding substitusion levels only to the core classes means any other base classes (past, present and future) don't get this feature unless the DM/players make up their own. Prestige classes could be designed around play concepts and be made available to different classes (for example: They could do a PrC based on "sneakyness" so a Rogue, Monk, Bard or Ranger who wanted to focus on planar sneakyness could take it... but so could a Swashbuckler or whatever there will be in the upcoming Complete Adventurer). I agree, more PrCs isn't somthing I look forward to, at the same time, I believe [i]well made PrCs can do a lot for the game.[/i] It's a "quality over quantity" thing for me I guess. Anyways, I think one of the main reasons I disliked the Planar Handbook is it was full of bad ideas that I fear (some of which are proving true with the Races of Stone previews) are going to turn into precident and then turn into a continuing line of unfortunate rules... Interestingly, almost every new WotC book I buy (Eberron being a glaring exception) make me more interested in playing/running games with only the 3 core books :) [/QUOTE]

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