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The prototype of the modern-day rockstar, the maestro is a musical genius whose works entertain the masses and make the dull drudgery that is the life of the peasant a little more livable. While usually a man of the people, some maestros are patronized by established power, such as nobles and certain religions seeking new compositions. Still others look to the adventuring profession for the inspiration they need to produce that next great masterpiece. Regardless of their source of income, maestros are often eccentric and almost always possessed of an incredible ego, making their kind an excellent topic for gossip.
The idea that produced this base class is actually very simple. How would a bard play if it were made less physically adept and was flavored to be bookish, like a wizard? Introducing a spellbook approach to music, the composition book, maestros have the ability to prepare and conduct various custom scores containing intros, outros, and melodies from a list of nearly 70 options. Combine this with 13 once-daily Opuses based on famous classical pieces that do everything from raising the dead to dropping cannonballs on the battlefield to produce a base class that is awash in so many options that losing physical prowess simply doesn't matter.
Like most Interjection Games base classes, the maestro requires preparation above and beyond that of most core base classes, but more than makes up for it with the extreme customizability offered to the player.
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Thanks for blowing the doors off of all previous sales records with this one, fellas! I'll be working on an expansion in February to fill in some of the holes I created in an effort to keep the end product at the price point I wanted. I have some prestige classes and an archetype in mind, and more compositions and opuses can always help. Still, as I see the tinker-strategy as a good one for this product, I apologize in advance for not putting all of my ideas in a single expansion and leaving it at that.
If you want to influence what goes into this expansion, just let me know what's on your mind! I'm leaning toward more compositions and opuses for the first one in order to make the base class as robust as possible before I start to publish variations of it.