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Prestige Classes (D&D 3e/3.5e) with Sam Roberts

Jul 30, 202441 minSeason 4Ep. 4
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Back ⁠⁠Dice Exploder season 4 on Backerkit⁠⁠ now!

⁠Transcript

This episode I'm joined by Sam Roberts (Escape from Dino Island) to talk about prestige classes, special classes from D&D 3e that you could only take by multiclassing into them. Sam thinks of these things as a noble failure: a very cool idea whose execution almost immediately dropped the ball. But what can we learn from their corpse?

We get into that, along with a boots-on-the-ground discussion of what our experiences were like actually playing D&D 3rd edition and an exploration of advancement as a concept at large: how does it work in most games, and how might it work instead?

Further Reading

The Game Left Unplayed, blogpost by Jay Dragon

D&D third edition

D&D 3.5 edition

Sam R’s game Escape from Dino Island

Socials

Sam D on Bluesky and itch.

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