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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PJ-Mason" data-source="post: 1648573" data-attributes="member: 12285">Sounds like a the same arguements i heard in favor of kits back in the day. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Had sages before kits and prestige classes and have had them since those game mechanics. Don't see a big difference.  Again, this seems more like players not having any confidence in their roleplaying or character depth if they need an official stamp on their character saying that he is an Evocationist. Especially after already BEING a Evocation wizard specialist (core class ability) and havng feats like Spell Focus (evocation) and all the other things that already make a evocationist an evocationist without the need of a prestige class that does the same thing anyway. But you can play those things without prestige classes to prove to you that your character IS how you are playing it.  There are feats (and as you say some alternate core classes) that do things like that already. Thats why i think they (prestige classes) are redundant.  I think the core classes, feats, and vastly improved multiclassing in the new edition took care of that. Especially clerics. Domains go a looong way to skipping right by that 2E problem that certaintly did exist.LOL. I'd use that same example in different way. Prestige classes are the new Kit Proliferation Syndrome. Hmmm....KPS......  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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