Proposing a quick leap down the corridors of personalised characters with a self-expandable core class.
Replace Rogue with Scout, from which both Thief and Rogue can be built by a player who so desires.
This can be done, by using Specialized Terrains as delimiters for skills, abilities, feats and talents.
No need to formally name combos, every PC is custom built by thier player.
For instance, a Rogue or Thief is an Urban Scout if you think about it.
Natural pathing for Pirates, Spies, Bandits, Sailors, Card Sharks, Thugs, Stalkers, Cassanovas and whatnot.
Ninja not included, as better a Monk variant. Same for PrC Assassin, as better a Ranger variant.
Not saying either should be, just that they lean moreso in that direction than as a Scout variant.
Talent system expanded into class streams, sort of like feature packages or talent trees.
Combat feat talents replaced with scout combat styles to help new players focus.
Often appears overpowered at first glance, until terrains, limitations, and availability considered.
Availability achieves the same as assigning point values, without the unnecessary math or value debates.
Certain features have prerequisites to focus builds, the better the features the harder the prerequisites.
Inappropriate for the core rules due to size, over 10 pages of talents.
If nothing else, displays another method of designing classes, instead of multiple support books.
Common PrC are woven in already, to also eliminate support book clutter.
Not fussed about the name being scout, it's just an easy handle.
Your input is requested please...
Download link for current version here v0.1.8 alpha
Unfortunately it's a docfile atm, google hasn't implemented public pdfs yet.
