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Teflon Jeff
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Sector 2814
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| Do you miss Prestige Classes?
Do you miss the customization they provide, or the extra flavor?
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zenthrus
Warlord
5091 Posts
SLC, UT
| | 07/09/2008 2:11 PM |
| Can't say I really miss them. PrCs usually bogged the game down while everyone flipped through splatbooks looking up abilities. Plus PrCs are where the really broken gish builds and game-breaking combos came from.
I have a feeling that splatbooks will start rolling out soon with more Paragon Path and Epic Destiny options (which essentially seem to have replaced PrCs in 4e). | |
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Ghendar
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12367 Posts
The G Spot
| | 07/09/2008 5:52 PM |
| Posted By Teflon Jeff on 07/09/2008 9:35 AM
Do you miss Prestige Classes? Yup Do you miss the customization they provide, or the extra flavor?
Flavor? Not really. I liked the options they provided. Options I'm not sure that 4e will have because of the reasons Zenthrus outlines in his post. My group never saw any of that garbage but it's obvious a great deal of 3.5 groups did and WotC listened to their complaints.
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Vrecknidj
Warlord
10429 Posts
United States
| | 07/09/2008 7:43 PM |
| The first few books of each edition in 3e slowed us down too. I expect we'll see a jillion options two years from now, and the prestige class will be a fleeting memory.
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Sean-Khan
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True_Blue
Underboss
2386 Posts
| | 07/11/2008 6:50 AM |
| I don't miss Presitige Classes because I think Paragon and Epic paths are a better version. So its almost like they still exist, except they are even better.
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Teflon Jeff
Warlord
7617 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 07/11/2008 11:22 AM |
| Yeah, and a lot less level dips for the breaking.
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Kaya Kenobi
Underboss
1304 Posts
San Jose, California
| | 07/12/2008 4:35 AM |
| Our games were never broken, and it was quite common to see things like this:
My Kender Rogue/Wizard/Arcane Trickster - A lot more useful than the 4e equivalent.
My friend's Elf Ranger/Deepwood Sniper
My friend's human Barbarian/Fighter/Frenzied Berserker
Another Cleric/Mystic Wanderer/Hierophant
Another Wizard/Archmage/Cleric/True Necromancer(whatever else)
etc etc etc....
The point to my little rambling, we took classes more for flavor than anything, just to specialize further in a certain direction. My most favorite PCs happen to be:
Kender Rogue 5/Wizard 5/Arcane Trickster 10/Archmage 5
Anthromorphic Cheetah Druid
Stonechild Monk/Cleric
I have had a few other favorites, like my kender paladin, my kender bard, my kender monk (yes, you heard right), and my kender druid. Can't you tell I like Kender?
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