Kasper Olesen's page

AEG +1 - especially 'Magic' just for the Madness Mage Class.

Green Ronin's Cavalier book in their Master Class Series, is excellent as is, but what goodness could Paizo do if they tinkered with it?

Personally, I'm in the variant class camp. I'm also in the '..a big fan of the Ad&d 2nd ed. kits..'-camp.
I like the fact that (for cleric kits) you'd 'specialize' in your chosen deity and get a couple of generic bonusses/powers, a bonus on spells - balanced with restrictions on spell selection. They differed between major and minor spheres where minor spheres only went to 3rd (?) level or so. So it basically added powers and narrowered the spell selection to add flavor. You'd have 2 entirely different clerics from different deities based of the core class. I'd also favor regional and organizational sourcebooks to include these variations as opposed to 'complete figther' type books (that should deal with new (fighter)feats, featchains, maneuvers, historical variants etc.).

I Also would like to see (again taking a deity as an example) different variants of _all_ the core classes under the diety's entry. Eg. Asmodeus (evil devil blah..) Worshippers as follows; Angerknight (Paladin variant), Legislate (Cleric variant), Harbringer (Monk variant) ..etc. (These names stolen purely because of failed imagination check! :/). These could be covered in regional books, introducing lots of flavor within the framework of the existing core classes, and at the same time introducing new spells, feats and weapons.

About Prestige Classes .. I do think they have a place. But I would like to see them more as very specific specializations, more than the variant-alternative-base class I feel it often is in 3.0/5. I actually think a prestige class should only be 5-lvl classes, lots of fluff and very specific. Ex. (Again using the concept descriped earlier - an entry under Asmodeus): Prestige Class - "High Magistrate ... Being chosen by Asmodeus to speak on his behalf at hearings and spread his word to the impure - you have been branded with his symbol on the neck..." There should be a level prereq (i'm thinking around 15'th) and perhaps some specific feats - but other than that none. BAB as previous class, some powers each level and perhaps bonus on spells with [evil] descriptor or such. I think that would be all flavour. Prestige classes I like are the 'discples..' etc. classes of the wotc devil-books.(EDIT: I know they are supposedly NPC-classes, but I like the fact they have clear purpose and excellent fluff..)

I hope some of the above makes sense - and please don't comment on my obvious lack of grammar ekspertise..

What say you?

/K