{3.x} Prestige class announcement?

Hi All,

When were prestige classes first announced, outside the playtest? I
remember they were mentioned in the PC builder software that came with
the PH (but not implemented there). I expect they were part of the
buildup before 3e was released, but I'm curious about when they were
first mentioned to the public.


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Keith Davies wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> When were prestige classes first announced, outside the playtest? I
> remember they were mentioned in the PC builder software that came with
> the PH (but not implemented there). I expect they were part of the
> buildup before 3e was released, but I'm curious about when they were
> first mentioned to the public.

They announced Assassins right away at the '99 Gencon, and later
someone slipped they were only coming back as a prestige class, and it
went from there. 8th December '99 of Eric Noah's unofficial 3e news had
the first talk about what these "Prestige Classes" might be (to wit,
something like the old Bard) from the WotC boards.

There was a pretty constant trickle of all sorts over that preceeding
year. Funny to think they had the PBH basically finished by the time they
announced it a year before publication, unlike 4e where they've nearly
finished it four months after publication. Damn shame that Hasbro ate our
little game a month after that 3e annoucement.

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