A new PrC paradigm
Filed under Love Your Geek on July 12, 2004
Keywords: Dungeons and Dragons, prestige classes
I finished the RPG editing test and mailed it off Saturday. It consisted of 20+ pages supposedly from an upcoming sourcebook. One thing that I found interesting about the content was a new format for how prestige classes were presented. Yeah, there was the advancement table, hit die, requirements, and class abilities, but following it was 4 pages of text on how the prestige class could fit into a campaign, as both a PC and NPC. It described the organization the PrC fit into and the role it fulfilled with unbelievable depth and colorful flavor.
I was impressed at this apparent shift in the prestige class paradigm. Someone at WotC heard me (and others voicing similar concerns). The PrC itself was also fairly interesting, and lent itself to more roleplaying possibility, as opposed to most of the current PrCs, which seem to be aimed more at powergaming. Hopefully, this material, or at least something like it, will actually make it to print.
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