The "P" word

Hey gang, its your old friendly DM again. Man I have been working hard on material for Wednesday. I am trying out some new technology for the next session, which will consist of me playing MP3 tracks I made of my voice doing long exposition or NPC speeches. I hope that will allow me to be more attentive to how you are reacting, and may get you to listen.

Good news, I redid the magic item shop according to pathfinder rules. It mostly consists of availability of items based on town/city size, and randomly generated magical items. Pat you are gonna flip, I randomly rolled a certain "specific" magical armor that has alluded you for so long. I also have finished making a magical item for your party that will allow you long distance travel, back and forth to your fortress more viable. I fully intend for you guys to make that place kick ass.

I just wanted to quickly bring up an issue that may bother you growing PC's out there, and that is Prestige classes. Just a quick run down on them, before I angrily veto preposterous ideas.

Rule #1 Talk to me about it. I need to know how viably it fits in with story line, whether its a broken prestige class or not, and how it fits with your characters.

Rule #2 Tell me what you want. I am flexible, and I want to make it work. There may be ways to fix certain p-classes if I tweak them, or you can maybe do some simple substitution, for the old "quid pro quo" way to customize your characters.

Rule #3 I really only bother with p-classes from Wizard's of the Coast's publishing, and even then I only allow stuff in hardcover, Dragon Magazine is made by Wizards but is basically crap as far as P-classes are concerned.

Rule#4 Pathfinder made changing to a Prestige class less useful. Most 3.75 classes are better than their older 3.5 counterpart. Thus they are usually better than most prestige classes, and when they are not it isn't as overwhelming. There is nothing wrong with staying one class, its not just simple, its usually better.