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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 2834322" data-attributes="member: 22424">In my opinion, before 4e is published, someone at Wizards should sit down and work out a coherent strategy for what should be a base class and what should be a prestige class.In my opinion, a base class should:1) Exist at all levels of ability. If a concept is only seen as experienced members, it's a PrC.2) Not be bound to a particular culture. Samurai should not be a base class. Some sort of generic 'Knight' class (including both Samurai and western Knight concepts) could be, although not with that name. Likewise, Barbarian is a poor name for a class - it should be Berserker, or a PrC.3) Not be bound by alignment. I really like base-class paladins, but really hate non-LG paladins. The logically consistent position requires that paladins become a PrC.4) Be sufficiently broad. Sufficiently broad is quite a difficult one to tie down, but unless you can reasonably see members of every PHB PC race taking the class, it's probably too narrow.5) Be customisable. I would like to see the talent trees from d20 Modern adopted, so that "a druid with a bit more shapechanging" is possible without the need for a specially-designed PrC.PrCs should exist for the more advanced concepts, the culturally-tied concepts, the narrow concepts, and whatever else.I would rather see the multiclass spellcaster problem fixed than have either base classes or prestige classes designed to fix the problem. That said, I think there was niche for a Mageblade/Duskblade/'Elf' class in the game.Of course, you always could... <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=":)" />No. Prestige Classes sell books. They're here to stay. Besides, when done well, they fill a perfectly valid place in the game system.</blockquote>

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