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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 1648795" data-attributes="member: 18832">I don't have anything in particular to say to the poster who opined that clerics shouldn't heal their fellow party members, because you'll have to wait a week or so for me to quit gut-laughing.I have seen plenty of prestige classes that would be just as good - even much, much better - as a chain of feats. The exotic weapon master from Complete Warrior is a perfect example - there's honestly no reason for this to be a class, because it's all about pseudo-feat abilities. Ideally, the vast majority of a prestige class's abilities should be things that wouldn't be appropriate as feats - spellcasting, supernatural and extraordinary abilities, et cetera.Hell, I've seen base classes that ought to be feat trees - Complete Warrior samurai, anyone? Tell me that shouldn't be a fighter with two-weapon fighting feats and a few intimidation-based feats.I absolutely agree with those who say that they don't feel that all people who are called assassins should be members of the assassin prestige class - even within the confines of a gameworld Order of Assassins.However, I think this is a strong argument against the concrete binding of prestige classes to gameworld organisations - instead, I encourage people to use them only when feats and/or careful multiclassing won't do the job. For example, I don't think the assassin's death attack ability should be turned into a feat - so for those characters whose modus operandi as an assassin involves a little magically-assisted stealth and infiltration and a devastating single attack that leaves their victim dead, the assassin prestige class is worthwhile. For entirely magical assassins - spellcasters using their magic to cover their tracks, for example - or others who don't use the "stealthy murder" approach, the class isn't necessary.I guess what I'm really trying to say is this: don't believe every prestige class ought to be one, nor that everyone in the role the prestige class is intended for ought to be a member. Prestige classes are a tool for the DM to use in designing his world and for players to use in realising a character concept - but common sense has to be brought to bear on both sides. <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=":)" />My nickname is Irish Gaelic, but it means "son of the Goddess".</blockquote>

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