most of the PrC capstones are jn the interesting/flavorful realm, rather than just being powerful.Ĭyphermage looks really good, paticularly the ability to use scrolls at your CL and draw them while moving. It's the same practice of discouraging mutliclassing through rewarding dedication to a class. Pathfinder does make the first dip into another class painful (subsequent dips are much easier, as you've already lost your capstone), but (nearly?) all prestige classes have their own capstones, some of which are nearly to the point of being a 20th level capstone at level 16-ish. Not sure it's mechanically worthwhile, but it doesn't matter. There's a fairamount of room for interpretation, but if your game runs on rule-of-cool, it's great Depending on DM, Halfling Opportunist ranges from pretty awesome to so-so. The Winter Witch PrC is in "why not?" territory if you're already playing a winter witch archetype witch On a UMD-build, a one-level dip in Pathfinder Savant for "you can always take ten on UMD" is helpful particularly if you're playing with skill-fumbles or a lot of wands. Two levels of Master Spy aren't a terrible dip in a fairly social campaign. Shadowdancer is still Shadowdancer - a quick dip PrC. In this case, I deny all responsibility for loss one the grounds that I haven't really looked at them that closely. If you're not playing in Golarion, d20pfsrd has setting neutral versions for your convenience!ĭisclaimer: some or all of the aforementioned prestige classes may, from a mechanical perspective, be considered utterly useless. My main problem with PF prestige classes is most of them seem to be pretty focused on casters, but here are a few more melee-ish ones I found interesting: Umbral (Court) Agent (), the Crimson Assassin/Red Mantis Assassin (), the Student of War (), and the completely-irrelevant-to-your-party-but-still-kinda-cool Champion of Irori(or the Enlightened) (). Of course, you could always tweak the entry requirements if you want, being the DM. Your Ranger doesn't happen to be an archer, does he? If so, the Lantern Bearer () looks like it could be interesting and fairly easy to qualify for if he's an elf or half-elf. I'm interested in the whole system, but particularly for a ranger - are there any prestige classes in Pathfinder that are clearly worth the sacrifice? The Pathfinder system design heavily encourages players to stay in a single class, and to me there seem to be some pretty hard sacrifices one has to make in order to take on a prestige class. In 3.5, I would be nudging him toward a prestige class. We started this campaign at first level in 3.5, and around level 4 switched over to Pathfinder.Ībout now, a couple of my players are hungry for a little more variety, and the Ranger is now looking like a pale shadow in combat compared to pretty much everyone else (except last game when he landed 3 crits in a row). My players have gone from level 4 to level 10 (intentionally slow advancement), and we're all having a blast.Īll of my players have single-classed characters, and we've got a: Wizard, Ranger, Archivist (imported from 3.5 and tweaked) and Duskblade (imported from 3.5, spell list tweaked). So, I've been running a very successful, very fun Pathfinder game for about 18 months now, every other week.
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