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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 165651" data-attributes="member: 232">I like and use prestige classes.  So, I';m going to try to offer my reasons that are along the opposite pole from yours.  1) Having groups of prestige classes helps populate the world.  It adds NPCs and having the character seek them out for training gives a a little more personal direction.  It allows the character to work towards something concreate.  Also, having a character take time and money to train is something I always like.  2) Okay, when level one characters say they want  to be a certain prestige class, I then think how this particuliar group fitsinto the world, or even if they do.  When the PC says he is working toward Arcane archer, or whatever I can tell him if it's allowed or not.  Then I can say that there is a school that you know of at such and such, or that he's heard rumors and stories from the east of these people.  I don't have to come up with it all right then and there.  I can create bread crumbs and make the character seek out and find this group and then role play a session of him earning his right to be trained by them.3) A fighter can be a whip specialist.  You can easily take the Lashers abilities and get them through multi classing or make them feats.  THere is nothing wrong with this at all.  Even with prestige classes, I've had characters want to take this route.  Choices are good.4) Haven't seen long term core characters?  Interesting.  I've seen Cleric, Ranger, and Barbarian straight classes up to 15 and beyond.  I've seen Fighter/rogues and Rogue /sorcerers.  In the current game, the bard has 4 levels of lasher and 13 of Bard.  The rest of his levels are going into Bard.  Personally, I think as long as the character concept stands up to all this multi classing, then I don't care how many classes a character has.5) I'm in big favor of higher and more powerful feat chains.  6) Those are some of the reasons I like them.  I'm happy with them, but by all means hate them with great venom.  THere are other parts of the game that I really hate, that others don't.</blockquote>

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