One of the areas in Dungeons & Dragons 3e that are sorely misunderstood and misused are Prestige Classes – even in the official books!
They were created for use by the GM as a worldbuilding tool, not to fill up splat books.
The issue with the published prestige classes is that they were designed to be too general (except for some of the racial ones), which is the antithesis of what they were supposed to be – that is, specific to the individual GM’s campaign world.
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