Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="reanjr" data-source="post: 1648147" data-attributes="member: 20740">I'm not talking about balance at all.&nbsp; I (and most others here) never had a problem with the balance of prestige classes.&nbsp; The problem was on having a mechanic and relying on players to use the mechanic only in appropriate situations.&nbsp; I don't have a problem with this.&nbsp; But if you have ever had a cleric (that didn't have Healing as a domain or tenet of their faith) that casts cure light wounds on people of different faiths in the party, then they are not playing their character appropriately.&nbsp; They're not healing them for prosylitization.&nbsp; They're healing them to get through the adventure.&nbsp; It's entirely mechanical.&nbsp; And that's what prestige classes are.&nbsp; They are a group of mechanics to hand pick wacky abilities from.Any rule that requires role-playing to implement properly has absolutely no place in the player's hands.&nbsp; It should be explicitly DM material that may be optionally used (at DM's discretion) by players.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="reanjr, post: 1648147, member: 20740"] I'm not talking about balance at all. I (and most others here) never had a problem with the balance of prestige classes. The problem was on having a mechanic and relying on players to use the mechanic only in appropriate situations. I don't have a problem with this. But if you have ever had a cleric (that didn't have Healing as a domain or tenet of their faith) that casts cure light wounds on people of different faiths in the party, then they are not playing their character appropriately. They're not healing them for prosylitization. They're healing them to get through the adventure. It's entirely mechanical. And that's what prestige classes are. They are a group of mechanics to hand pick wacky abilities from. Any rule that requires role-playing to implement properly has absolutely no place in the player's hands. It should be explicitly DM material that may be optionally used (at DM's discretion) by players. [/QUOTE]

Verification