What is your favorite prestige class? (Added results so far)

[maddman75]

I'd have to go with the Paragon, from Heroes of High Honor: Dwarves. They are paladin/fighters that exchange their mounts for an ancestral weapon that gains in power as they do.

Maybe you guys can help me here - but I hate the shadowdancer class. From what I can see, there's no flavor or roleplaying aspect at all. He's a guy that can hide really good. I don't know anything about them, or what role they might fill, or how one might act. I'm stunned that so many like it for the role play aspects where I see none. Its about as bland and lifeless as the Mystic Theurge.

 

[Gaius]

I'm really digging my Giant-killer.

Gaius

 

[malestrithe]

I really like the Vestenmanavenjar Bearsarker, the Leegstra Berserker, the Zepeda Whip Master, and the Die Kreutzritter Phantom Guardsmen for the Swashbuckling Adventures game. They are powerful for what they do.

In the Oriental Adventures book, I prefer the Ursa Bear warrior.

 

[Oni]

Ones that immediately spring to mind are the Lasher, Drunken Master, Iaijutsu Master, FaterSpinner, and the Animal Lord. Though I'm very fond of a great deal of the concepts out there for PrC's I find the mechanics are often dull or not as well done as I'd like. For instance both the Penumbral Lord and the Shadow Adept are very cool ideas, but I find both lacking mechanically for various reasons.

 

[S'mon]

Maybe you guys can help me here - but I hate the shadowdancer class. From what I can see, there's no flavor or roleplaying aspect at all. He's a guy that can hide really good. I don't know anything about them, or what role they might fill, or how one might act. I'm stunned that so many like it for the role play aspects where I see none. Its about as bland and lifeless as the Mystic Theurge.

I have to agree totally with this assessment of the Shadowdancer - I've read over the class a few times and I can't work out what they're supposed to represent, other than a guy who can hide very well. I've no idea where they're supposed to come from, what they're supposed to do (hide?), what their goals might be. To those of you who like the Shadowdancer, what role do they play in your campaigns?

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

From OA, I love the Bear Warrior and the Blade Dancer, simply because they're such great archetypes! Turn into a Bear when raging! Leap 80' into the air and kill your foes! What's not to love?

Simon, if I rolled up a monk, would the Blade Dancer be a PrC I could aim for?

Um, I really have to stop asking my DM questions in other peoples threads. I'll stop now. Sorry.

BEAR DANCER AND BLADE WARRIOR, YEAH! Or something.

 

[hong]

I have to agree totally with this assessment of the Shadowdancer - I've read over the class a few times and I can't work out what they're supposed to represent, other than a guy who can hide very well. I've no idea where they're supposed to come from, what they're supposed to do (hide?), what their goals might be. To those of you who like the Shadowdancer, what role do they play in your campaigns?

They're sorta like ninjae, only they don't flip out and kill people.

 

[S'mon]

From OA, I love the Bear Warrior and the Blade Dancer, simply because they're such great archetypes! Turn into a Bear when raging! Leap 80' into the air and kill your foes! What's not to love?

Simon, if I rolled up a monk, would the Blade Dancer be a PrC I could aim for?

BEAR DANCER AND BLADE WARRIOR, YEAH! Or something.

Maybe... I have no idea what this Blade Dancer PrC does, but I tend to allow most PrCs in principle, I just tone their abilities down (or up - eg QF Berserker) where necessary.

 

[Destil]

Lasher.

 

[Storminator]

Maybe you guys can help me here - but I hate the shadowdancer class. From what I can see, there's no flavor or roleplaying aspect at all. He's a guy that can hide really good. I don't know anything about them, or what role they might fill, or how one might act. I'm stunned that so many like it for the role play aspects where I see none. Its about as bland and lifeless as the Mystic Theurge.

My near epic monk will be taking a few levels of shadowdancer. It fits in with how my monk sees his powers.

I never move, Toril moves under me. I have learned to control its movements (fast movement and Dimension Door). My control extends to the 3rd dimension, as I can throw Toril away from me (Leap of the Clouds), and delay its inevitiable return (slow fall). I have mastered disease and poison, neutralizing those that contact me. My control of the Weave forces magic to stop at my skin (SR), and breaks down others defenses (Ki Strike). I have mastered all these forces, time and space, magic, chemicals, now I turn my mind to light and dark.

Soon I will cloak myself in darkness, blinding the sight of others. And my own eyes will penetrate the shadows. I will channel my control of space thru the shadows I control, and move myself at will.

It all fits.

PS