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Forgive my somewhat befuddled post, its late after a tough game session but I needed to get this started and hope for some feedback before tomorrow evening.

My group and I have decided to step away from Exalted finally and get back to a less "flamboyant" game system. All of us are AD&D 3.5 vets but haven't touched the system in quite some time (9 years now). We've all decided to make use of all the following books Core/APG/ARG/UC/UM/UE. I resurrected a old campaign I had run long long ago in the FR which at the time we put it to rest, the party was 12th level. We took the characters at the time and "translated" them into PF using the above listed books.

Our party consists of a Gunslinger, a Oracle of Arcane Lore, Fire Sorcerer, a Cleric with healing domain, a Rogue TWF specialist and a human Fighter. We are using Archtypes as we felt it made the classes a lot less cookie cutter and all of the players have accessed various guides to optimize their characters but without going crazy about it. (basically all the chars bought the "essentials" for their purpose within the group). The problem we ran into is the Fighter, he is a 2H weapon AT and is pumping out incredible damage. He is utterly destroying everything he runs into while the rest of the party is good naturely joking that they've polymorphed into minor side kick status. At the end of the night the group also Feel PF is kind of broken but 2 of us wanted to crunch some numbers and see if we could get any insight.

The player of the 2H warrior created a spreadsheet and we started plugging a number of classes into the fields and we're not squeezing every ounce of performance out of the builds but were just trying to get a feel for the damage out put ranges. We ran about a dozen different variations but I'll spare you all the sordid details, we based it off the characters that were in play for the most part and erred on the conservative side of tactics and got a summary of these numbers.

Damage per Round totals
2H Fighter: 103
2 weapon Fighter: 52
Sorc: 40 (no meta magic use)
Rogue (sneak attack half the time) 34
GS: 32 (no grit powered attacks)
Monk 24 (no ki powered attacks)

I realize these numbers typically require a great deal more detail with relevant builds, like I said we stripped things down to bare essentials to get a feel for comparative damage output using the same basic considerations that the 2H fighter tends to use (i.e. things like a staple feat like PA) go to tactics without being munchkin performance hounds about it. We were also pretty beat by the time we made this thing and I'm sure we overlooked a few things, but the thing that we walked away from is that PF seems to either have a extremely heavy bias about Fighters (and utterly hates Monks) or the Archtype itself is somehow broke. Granted, classes bring more to the table besides damage, casters in particular have utility and so forth.

Again, my apologies for kind of babbling here but what I'm basically trying to ask is this: Does PF favor Fighters really that much across the board when it comes to DPS?

I spent way too many hours trying to google a solution for this after searching through the various rulebooks failed me, and as a newly minted PF GM I've run out of time to devote to this and figured I'd ask this wonderful resource here.

I got a player who wants to play a Magus but wants to run it based off of CHA like the Sorcerer. I figured from what I know that this shouldn't be too difficult since I knew Sorcerers have the option to shift their spell casting stat from CHA to INT or even WIS by selecting a certain bloodline. But I couldn't find squat on how to do this for a Int based character to go to CHA. Normally I'd just make the swap and be done with it, but we're using Hero Lab alot and ideally I want to use a more official feature than my whim. So basically my question is, am I missing something? Is there no option to flip INT to CHA for a Magus?

Also, the player said he'd prefer if he could be a "Sorcerer like Magus", meaning spontaneous casting with fewer spells, etc. I considered building a archtype to do this, but as I said in the beginning, I'm newly arrived to PF and some advice would be appreciated.