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Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! I have been looking off and on for years for a decent conversion for the beguiler and I just hit the mother load! It has been so frustrating to dig through uninspired conversion threads and find nothing but garbage. They're all full of people saying that beguilers can just be brought into pathfinder while wizards who can trounce a beguiler at pretty much everything in the game are getting bonuses from arcane schools and sorcerers who aren't far behind the wizards get awesome bloodline powers. FINALLY SOMEBODY WHO GETS IT! Somebody who is willing to give the beguiler some special sauce to make them as interesting as paizo's classes and to keep their power level up there.
I've been through so many other conversions and you are hitting all the marks they're missing. Thing's like Kirth's beguiler bloodline for sorcerers and the sandman bard completely miss the point of the beguiler being its own thing. Kirth's beguiler is too susceptible to just getting all the cool arcane toys that high level sorcerers and ignoring the beguiler's strong focus on illusion and charm and the skilled side of the beguiler. The sandman bard manages the skill monkey and lives as a spiritual successor to the beguiler, but doesn't carry the same magical power since it's only a half caster class. Other conversions the "beguiler to psychic warrior" attempt are just bland and uninspired, doing nothing but increasing the beguiler's save dc. This conversion finally gives me something I can sink my teeth into! New powers that both increase the abilities of the beguiler and give him entry into new realms of the game (alot of the beguiler's abilities try to lull you into close combat but it was almost always certain death for the old beguiler, this beguiler could definitely manage in close combat). This is what I've wanted for a long time. I'm so excited, I'll finally be able to play an asskicking beguiler again! Thank you, so much this is awesome work!