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Very close to 60% now.

If you somehow get past the Verduran Fork tier, any chance for the Kineticist to be vectored in? >>; Rage of Elements did come out AFTER Paizo cobbled together ORC...

It's worth noting that in D&D 1e, Bard was a VERY advanced class by default, much like the Monk. (I don't remember whether the Assassin was likewise, even if having too low a starting Charisma score locked you into that. Especially irksome when you consider that Assassins had to be evil-aligned.) In fact, the Bard and Monk were expressly optional classes for any given campaign. The Bard was even basically a prestige class.

Step one: Human/half-elven fighter, 15 STR/DEX/WIS/CHA, 12 INT, 10 CON.
Step two: Get to level 5-7, then switch to thief.
Step three: Get to level 5-9, then switch to bard proper, which adds druid capabilities (spellcasting included), entrancing music, and built-in legend lore abilities.

I wonder how much the original Bard's Tale CRPG convinced TSR to make the Bard far more readily accessible. Even if neither the Monk nor Half-Orcs were available in the 2e Players' Handbook.

Esoterician? Not Occultist? {teleports to safety}

As to Druid, I was also thinking of Warden for an alternate name. One part D&D 4e's Warden (which was more like our Forester, mind), two parts Everquest II's Warden (the yin Druid to the Fury's yang Druid in there).

And on a more humorous note, "Vindicate" and "Avenge" are roughly the same thing, as they're ultimately both derived from the Latin "vindex". "Avenge" just went through Old French as well.

I really like the term "benefactor" for the kobolds' power source. It's nice and neutral; a benefactor might be a master or an ally, or even an enemy, a prisoner, an unwitting host.

On that note, I didn't take long to think of the adsorptive properties of kobold eggs in Player Core 2 as being a magical extrapolation of real-world reptilian ectothermy (i.e. drawing in more ambient things than heat). Wonder if the iruxi are raising their eyebrows about that.

Granted you're also talking to someone who entertains the idea of halflings being at baseline low-echelon, unconscious psychics, courtesy the description of the Psychic feat Foreseen Failure (i.e. my explanation of choice for Halfling Luck is in its vein--subconscious sense of causality being Unpleasant soon, and equally subconscious psychokinetic nudge to make causality less Unpleasant). So you might need some salt. But I found it also makes the halflings' own Support Race culture less onerous--that unconscious psychic sense makes them driven to becalm others if only to lessen their own stress. Not so much Servant Race as Therapist Race???

I know my own Thaumaturge idea is a half-elven denizen of Tian Xia (Tian Xia mostly to explain why she'd have ready access to a jiu huan dao) who works with the occult equivalent of waveform interference. Her first implement is a literal bell--one more akin to bells associated with feng shui than any other type, with groove-pockets on the exterior to fit esoterica in. Ringing the bell is HOW she presents the esoterica, whether or not it's the special reaction--the qualities of the esoterica (one primary and one or two secondary) interact through constructive and destructive interference in the midst of the bell's soundwaves to produce the effect she's looking to visit on her foe. (Hence the jiu huan dao that would ultimately be her second implement--it's the only weapon I could find that I could readily associate with sound. >>;;;; )

As you might have guessed, adventuring with her would be a...noisy...affair when a fight breaks out. (Well, noisier than usual.)

And here I thought the Ranger choice was mostly from 1e Inquisitors starting with bow proficiencies...

I know I'm a little more aware of the Inquisitions not being just the Iberian nightmares--notably the French Inquisitions. And understanding that the term "inquisitor" MEANS "investigator". (Same root as "inquire" and "inquisitive".) Of course, the French Inquisitions were no fun for the Albigensians, despite them being much more restrained about torture (they even appropriated the right of torture to themselves as a way to keep torture from being used with any frequency at all, by appealing to papal authority! Then came Torquemada...).

I'd PROBABLY just jettison the term "inquisitor" outright, though. "Vindicator" and "vindictive" share etymology too, after all, but neither one has "inquisitor"'s Stickiness.

Meanwhile...magus variants for the other three traditions. Optionally with their own conflux styles. Stat. Your pick on prepared or spontaneous spells. Hunter is obviously up for the primal variant.

I know I get leery when people speak as though they want "mature content" (as you'll see, I'm mostly looking at var. Willfully Edgy and var. Shock Value) for its own sake, rather than a means to an end. I suppose one way to put it is if an emphatically-not-All-Ages scenario involves agents of Zepar, it may want to avoid being too visceral anyway, and instead focus some energy on balming the agents' "incubators" and experimental subjects and helping them back on their feet, especially in downtime mode.

Mostly being a touch worried about PF 1.0's earliest early days, where (and mind any straw that crept in) the heads were determined to be darker than D&D ever had been. Which to me sounds like darker than even Dark Sun. Fortunately the employees had a very high Social Justice Paladin index, from the sounds of things. (Yes, I do think Social Justice _class_ should be seen as a thing of honor, why do you ask?)