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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5434411" data-attributes="member: 4937">For folks keeping score, it was the rudeness in this post that caused Celebrim to be removed from the thread. Be polite to one another, please. - PiratecatThank you.&nbsp; We are so glad we have you here to snarkily tell us these things.Wow.&nbsp; You are a amazing. I would have never noticed that 3 isn't 400.&nbsp; I've only got 30 hours of college math.&nbsp; It just has never came up before.&nbsp; I don't know how I passed differential equations.Here's the thing.&nbsp; If you want to claim there are only 3 PrC's in the published works of 3.5 edition; you go right ahead.&nbsp; I'm not going to correct your math for you.&nbsp; Now, I don't know whether there are 400 PrC's that have been published for the D20 system.&nbsp; Maybe that is hyperbole.&nbsp; Maybe the number is much smaller than that, especially if we elimenate third party splat books.&nbsp; The point is, the number of PrC's published for D20 is very very large, and the question becomes, &quot;Why do we need so many?&quot;&nbsp; And really, most of them are just collections of feats arranged in a particular order.&nbsp; I think the reason most PrC's exist is simply to sell books.Granted.&nbsp; When one of my players said he wanted to be Dinosaur Rider, I told him, &quot;Yeah, you might not be able to find a dinosaur in the area of where I'm planning to start a game, but hold on to that thought.&quot;&nbsp; So, technically, he wasn't his concept from level 1, but equally technically, he has been able to do so since then.&nbsp; PrC's can't give you that.&nbsp; The whole concept can't get you there, but it sure can give you, &quot;a huge number of characters you can't play from level 1&quot;&nbsp; Of course, he also wanted a laser cannon at 1st level.&nbsp; I had to tell him no to that.&nbsp; I'm such a bad DM.UPDATE: If anything, it appears my 'hyperbole' was a gross understatement.&nbsp; A quick search for prestige classes just turned up about 700 of them just from WotC.&nbsp; And there is probably at least that many out there from major third party vendors as well.&nbsp; So, forget why do we need 400 PrC's, why do we need 600 or 1000 of them?&nbsp; Is having hundreds and hundreds of classes spread across scores of books really a strength to your RPG rules, or are you just making a bug into a feature?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 5434411, member: 4937"] [b][color=red]For folks keeping score, it was the rudeness in this post that caused Celebrim to be removed from the thread. Be polite to one another, please. - Piratecat[/color][/b][color=red][/color] Thank you. We are so glad we have you here to snarkily tell us these things. Wow. You are a amazing. I would have never noticed that 3 isn't 400. I've only got 30 hours of college math. It just has never came up before. I don't know how I passed differential equations. Here's the thing. If you want to claim there are only 3 PrC's in the published works of 3.5 edition; you go right ahead. I'm not going to correct your math for you. Now, I don't know whether there are 400 PrC's that have been published for the D20 system. Maybe that is hyperbole. Maybe the number is much smaller than that, especially if we elimenate third party splat books. The point is, the number of PrC's published for D20 is very very large, and the question becomes, "Why do we need so many?" And really, most of them are just collections of feats arranged in a particular order. I think the reason most PrC's exist is simply to sell books. Granted. When one of my players said he wanted to be Dinosaur Rider, I told him, "Yeah, you might not be able to find a dinosaur in the area of where I'm planning to start a game, but hold on to that thought." So, technically, he wasn't his concept from level 1, but equally technically, he has been able to do so since then. PrC's can't give you that. The whole concept can't get you there, but it sure can give you, "a huge number of characters you can't play from level 1" Of course, he also wanted a laser cannon at 1st level. I had to tell him no to that. I'm such a bad DM. UPDATE: If anything, it appears my 'hyperbole' was a gross understatement. A quick search for prestige classes just turned up about 700 of them just from WotC. And there is probably at least that many out there from major third party vendors as well. So, forget why do we need 400 PrC's, why do we need 600 or 1000 of them? Is having hundreds and hundreds of classes spread across scores of books really a strength to your RPG rules, or are you just making a bug into a feature? [/QUOTE]

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