Whats your Favorite/Most Played DMG PrC?

[Merlion]

Moving along again lets take the original block of prestige classes and see which are most loved,
Try to keep arguements to a minium...just tell me your personal favorite/most played.
And please please dont start up the "prestige classes are evil/unbalanced/suck etc" arguement if it can be avoided.
I havent played any of them myself but if I was it'd most likely be Loremaster or Arcane Archer.

 

[RangerWickett]

I had a player who played a CG Rogue 5/Alt. Ranger 1 (no dual-wielding)/Assassin 4/Shadowdancer 1. His backstory was that his mother was a demon-summoning sorceress, who ended up bonding herself to a demon so that she could take revenger on those who killed her husband (and the PC's father). So he apparently got linked up with a bit of demonic power, which let him become a shadow dancer. It's amazing, my friend Neil was like the anti-power gamer. He seems to have no grasp of advantageous powers and abilities, and most of his feats were totally random cool things, that didn't help a core character focus. But dang, could he hide. I think he had something like a +26 Hide check, with a cloak of elvenkind. The rest of the party got a little frustrated when he'd hide in plain sight for 3 rounds, then deal a death blow. Sure, when he finally did hit, he made an impact, but for the rounds before that, he usually did nothing effective.

 

[Laslo Tremaine]

I could not vote.

In the three campaigns that I play in, no-one has taken one of these PrCs...

 

[Endur]

I play a Dwarven Defender and I know someone who plays an Arcane Archer, but in terms of popularity, I hear a lot of people talking about the Shadow Dancers ability to hide in plain sight.

So I voted for DD, but I suspect Shadow Dancer is the real popular one.

Loremaster is, I think, a gimme if you are a high level wizard and you don't have any other PRC you want.

Tom

 

[Psion]

I put Blackguard, minding that this is strictly a DM perspective.

 

[Angcuru]

arcane archer.

Why, you ask?

What other class can place 10 arrows of detonation on the other side of a brick wall in a single round at no risk to themselves?

Passwall-type arrow + Arrow of death = arrow of death that ignores armor.

closest thing you'll get to the 2nd edition Archer Kit : +1 to attack and damage every other level.

 

[Nightfall]

Same here, Psion. Blackguard is a great DMG Pr-class.

 

[Crothian]

I've never seen anybody play them or show any interest in them. However, my favorite is the Loremaster.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

One of my PCs was a shadowdancer with a both Boots and a Cloak of Elvenkind and a Ring of Chameleon Power.


Yea.... I had to kill him.

 

[Merlion]

Yea people seem to REALLY like the Shadowdancer