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<blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 548065" data-attributes="member: 537">I think you'd be surprised at how many people want to play out a story, _via_ their characters.I really don't think it's that hard. Yes, there may have been tons of d20 products released, but IME most people will stick to the WOTC books. So while there may be lots of PrCs out there, in practice you can probably safely ignore 90% of them. If a player comes to you and says, &quot;I want prestige class Foo that was in So-and-So's sourcebook&quot;, you can just say &quot;I haven't got So-and-So's sourcebook; try to find something else.&quot; IME, most players don't expect a DM to have all the books or acommodate all their wishes.In my current campaign, set in the Britannia of the Ultima games, I've limited PrCs basically to a selection from various WOTC books. This was made known at the start of the campaign. In fact, I set up the website (see sig) before play began, so that the players would have an idea of what to expect. I haven't experienced any problems with players whinging about PrCs that aren't available.That's not to say that the current selection is fixed in stone. If someone really wanted PrC Foo, and they made it known to me at character creation, and as long as PrC Foo wasn't obviously broken or out-of-sync with the campaign flavour, I would allow them to have it. The world isn't so concrete that I wouldn't beable to fiddle things so as to give the class its own niche.It's just a question of anticipating player expectations, and dealing with them as best as possible.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hong, post: 548065, member: 537"] I think you'd be surprised at how many people want to play out a story, _via_ their characters. I really don't think it's that hard. Yes, there may have been tons of d20 products released, but IME most people will stick to the WOTC books. So while there may be lots of PrCs out there, in practice you can probably safely ignore 90% of them. If a player comes to you and says, "I want prestige class Foo that was in So-and-So's sourcebook", you can just say "I haven't got So-and-So's sourcebook; try to find something else." IME, most players don't expect a DM to have all the books or acommodate all their wishes. In my current campaign, set in the Britannia of the Ultima games, I've limited PrCs basically to a selection from various WOTC books. This was made known at the start of the campaign. In fact, I set up the website (see sig) before play began, so that the players would have an idea of what to expect. I haven't experienced any problems with players whinging about PrCs that aren't available. That's not to say that the current selection is fixed in stone. If someone really wanted PrC Foo, and they made it known to me at character creation, and as long as PrC Foo wasn't obviously broken or out-of-sync with the campaign flavour, I would allow them to have it. The world isn't so concrete that I wouldn't beable to fiddle things so as to give the class its own niche. It's just a question of anticipating player expectations, and dealing with them as best as possible. [/QUOTE]

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