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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenjib" data-source="post: 241420" data-attributes="member: 530">I think that there is a place for publishing generic PRCs though.  Take the Librum Equitis.  The PRCs are presented without an accompanying campaign setting context, and because of this they are great for homebrew worlds where the DM can add that specific context and have the rules part already taken care of for him.  That's part of what d20 is all about - little bits here and there that you can plug in to your game.I think part of the problem is that WotC started off by setting a bad example in the splatbooks.  Those PRCs are supposed to be tied to a game world (Greyhawk) but they are also supposed to be generic (since they are intended as general supplements).  This ambiguous definition early on opened the floodgates for yet more ambiguous PRCs.  They should have either followed the generic/customizable or the specific route instead of straddling the mid ground....not to mention the fact that many of them were silly or excessively niche anyway.I think that better quality control in the icky splatbooks would have set the bar higher and other publishers would have followed suit.</blockquote>