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Okay, since there hasn't been any review or discussion about this product, I thought I'd get the ball rolling.
Apparently inspired by the Occultist class from pathfinder, this class also has items that they invest energy into.
The very major difference is that the Successor doesn't choose objects based on schools of magic, but rather on character types.
So the choices are cunning, faith, war, and magic.
Which means this is a chameleonic class along the lines of the taskshaper, radiance house occultist, the interjection games reaper, or legend summoning thaumaturge.
So how magical, roguelike, magical, or divine your character is going to be will vary with day to day as you choose to invest your mana, or keep it in reserve (at the cost of half efficiency) as situations come up.
Of course which legacy powers and heirlooms you choose will also limit your options, you're not going to be very good at emulating rogues if you don't have an heirloom of cunning. :)
This book also includes archetypes for other classes to get in on the fun, namely the slayer, war priest, arcanist, and brawler.
Also includes an archetype for the Successor, which is kind of a Successor as Shifter, instead of being a character with access to psychically charged heirlooms from a legacy of power, they are raised by wolves types who are infused with the power of nature which they can invest into their own bodies. And grow claws.
This book also includes feats, the bulk of them seem to be about combining heirlooms into dual legacy heirlooms for a pool of specialized mana that can be spent to increase a specific effect.
Also the folks at Lost Spheres seem to include at least one green lantern fan, since there is a feat chain that allows a Successor to use a ring for legacy powers that aren't generally available to rings, and feed items to the ring to enable the successor to manifest the destroyed items with the expenditure of mana.
For those of you who like me have a fondness for equipment makers like the Soulknife I imagine that is a nice bonus.
