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I'm curious!
What's your FAVORITE prestige class that we've published in a Pathfinder product for Golarion. The prestige classes in the Core Rulebook don't count! And you can only pick one!
- note this is based on concept, and not necessarily mechanics. If I was going strictly by mechanics I might go with another one instead.. but the Living Monolith made me go, "Oooh.. that's kinda cool!"
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So far, Red Mantis Assassins.
It's like all the best parts of The Hand(especially the whole leaving no body behind bit) crossed with evil Kamen Riders with a good dose of paranoia fuel thrown in for flavor. They know if you've been brought back from the dead? Oh crap.
That and they fight velociraptors. @#$%ING AWESOME.
My first thought was Harrower, definitely. Then I saw the posts about Red Mantis Assassin, which I've actually used and is also pure awesomeness... no.. I'm not picking more than one, really.
To be honest, I haven't seen any that have really jumped up and grabbed me so far.
The Harrower, hands down. Nothing screams "Campaign Flavour" like them. Well, maybe the Hellknights do, but harrowers came first :)
I love both the Hellknight and Red Mantis Assassin equally.
Though I haven't seen the Hellknight class I'd say the concept is interesting, but Red Mantis Assassin is very nice in concept and look.
I'll throw my lot in though with Shackles Pirate, for the flavor associated with it, and the art.
There's more prestige classes? I must be living under a rock.I'm curious!
What's your FAVORITE prestige class that we've published in a Pathfinder product for Golarion. The prestige classes in the Core Rulebook don't count! And you can only pick one!
There are some in specific APs plus the Companions often have one
My favorite so far is the Red Mantis assassin or the Desna specific one (Spherewalker I think)
although I must admit none of them are as cool as some of the Forgotten Realms PrCs like the Bladesinger
There's more prestige classes? I must be living under a rock.There are some in specific APs plus the Companions often have one
My favorite so far is the Red Mantis assassin
There are some in the Campaign Setting, too. But the ones in the Campaign Setting I found to be pretty uninteresting mechanically, and interesting but overly specific from a flavour standpoint.
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There's more prestige classes? I must be living under a rock.I'm curious!
What's your FAVORITE prestige class that we've published in a Pathfinder product for Golarion. The prestige classes in the Core Rulebook don't count! And you can only pick one!
There are some in specific APs plus the Companions often have one
My favorite so far is the Red Mantis assassin or the Desna specific one (Spherewalker I think)
although I must admit none of them are as cool as some of the Forgotten Realms PrCs like the Bladesinger
Are these compiled anywhere or do you have to have access to the APs?
http://pathfinder.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Prestige_classes
thats a list of them I believe
Balanced Scale of Abadar.
Setting specific, unique powers. That's what a PrC is for.
Balanced Scale of Abadar.
Setting specific, unique powers. That's what a PrC is for.
Which book is that in?
Balanced Scale of Abadar.Which book is that in?
Dark Markets, IIRC. I remember when I first read about Abadar's "First Vault" I thought it was really neat. Then I saw the Balanced Scale, whose powers centered around the vault, and I was sold. I made a cleric of Abadar hoping to make it to Balanced Scale, but alas, he died epically at 4th level. Very rare is the prestige class that holds my interest.
Setting specific, unique powers. That's what a PrC is for.
I could not agree more, Mr Lincoln
I think the best ones are usually deity specific
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Is this a rhetorical question, mr. Jacobs? Everyone's favorite prestige class is naturally the Hellknight!
(And I will make sure any Chelaxian who dares suggest otherwise gets a first-class ticket to a slave galleon!)
Diabolist is nice, too... but I might not be impartial in this matter, having taken a few levels in this wonderful prestige class!
I second the Living Monolith, although I'm quite liking the new Shieldmarshal from PoP.
Hell Knight... But only because I haven't gotten a chance to read the new prestige classes from Paths of Prestige :(
Truth be told, I've never actually gotten the chance to play a character with levels in a Prestige Class. I always keep thinking of making a paladin that goes into Hell Knight just because some people don't know that Hellknights =/= evil. Also that some of the Hellknights are paladins. (Although if I get him high enough in PFS, I will have an Aasimar Hellknight Paladin...)
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Gray Gardener: really happy to see stuff for galt and really hope it becomes pfs legal
Hellknight: Love the concept and story behind them making them something most of my characters have some connection to
Razmiran Priest: On pure mechanics it's amazing loved reading it through and finding a way to transport it into my home world
Noble Scion: Like that we finally have more ways to represent the aristocracy among PC characters. On that note though I really want to see more added on to punch up the class or just more variety in the theme then on prestige class and one feat.
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Many are interesting, but as a player in APs, most don't seem "realistically" viable.
For example, I'm playing a 6th level Varisian highwayman-like gunslinger in the Jade Regent AP. While I was excited to see the Shieldmarshal, it was so specifically tied to Alkenstar that I couldn't justify becoming a member during our exploration of Ravenscraeg -- much less during the rest of the AP. I'm not sure my gunslinger has even heard of Alkenstar! And who'd mentor me in the prestige class?
Winter Witch. The picture was cool.
...pun intended.
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When there is a good, Good Cleric one, that will likely be it. Im really not interested in campaign material at all. No offense, I just do not play in anything that similar to your official Golarion, so its generally irrelivent. The Hellknight Signifier is a really really good Knight of Takhisis type, so thats probably going for second place, only because as a player, Im probably never going to actually use it, but mechanics-wise looks incredibly solid and I really like that it is usable by more than one basic class style. Anything that really is only really useful to one class (type), I generally dislike on principle. The Eagle Knight is a great example of so much wasted potentual, unless your a warrior type, even if the concept would be right up your alley otherwise.
All in all, I would probably say my favorate would be either the Pathfinder Savant (as a generic cloistered cleric/scroll master caster) or the Holy Vindicator just for being a really cool, great flavored, focused (and one of the only) Cleric PCs out there.
If we are already commited to little thread necromancy... Souldrinker.
Hellknight.
With Bloatmage a close second.
Definitely Red Mantis Assassin, with the exception of one thing (the look of the mask), I love everything about them, mechanically and thematically.
Hellknights are awesome (especially the older, 15 level, version), following that is Justicar (if it counts).
Ironically they both complement each other nicely.
I have a soft spot for the Steel Falcon, personally.
Spherewalker.
Harrower.
Red Mantis.
Hellknight.
In that order. Though, to be honest...nevermind, to heck with honesty! Spherewalker Number one! with no qualifiers..well, maybe one lil' er....NO qualifiers!
Greg
razmiran priest.
razmir and the whole false god thing really strikes me for some reason and i love it. maybe cause i like religious history and i can see a bit of it in this class.
plus thinking of a way to create false divine magic was very impressive.
Cyphermage.
Mammoth Rider
Noble Scion
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Without a single doubt in my mind:
Living Monolith, from the Osirion book.
For both RP, and mechanics. It's super tightly tied to the setting, AND it has things like self-enlarging as a swift action, damage reduction, auto-stabilize below zero, Righteous Might, detecting undead, summoning a Shinx, and -literally- immortality.
Thus, the reason that I play a Living Monolith.
Hellknight is second. Although, a distant second.
razmiran priest.
razmir and the whole false god thing really strikes me for some reason and i love it. maybe cause i like religious history and i can see a bit of it in this class.
plus thinking of a way to create false divine magic was very impressive.
You have Jason Bulmahn to thank for that feat of creative rules engineering! I was thinking of taking a couple levels in the Razmiran Priest prestige class for my wizard in Jacobs's game here at the office, but I have a feeling my adventuring companions would prefer a healer whose results were a bit more... trustworthy. We'll probably just have to stick with Sean's cleric of Gorum. :]
Core Rulebook doesn't count? (Darn, 'cause I absolutely LOVE my mystic theurge, and to a lesser degree my shadowdancer wizard)
Well... Fine, I'll admit that I actually find the bloatmage quite neat. Disturbing and gross, but neat. They're quite fun to play when you want a pompus scumball of a caster who can still manage to be useful.
The halfling opportunist is also a recipe for fun. I think my vote still goes for the bloatmage though.
I don't think any one has said mine yet. Demoniac from Lords of Chaos. Although probably only for an NPC villain, and a high level one at that.
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Veiled Illusionist.
