Casual player tackling the magus

[Black Tom]

One of my players expressed an interest in playing a magus. He's a pretty casual player, and I get a feeling that the magus is one of the hardest classes to play, even if I like it a lot.

Is there any archetype that would make for more ease of play or should I just gently steer him away from the prospect?

Thanks in advance for any input.

[ManaMana]

If he starts playing it from level 1 I think he can do it.

Specially with a cheat-sheet. Like if you use spell combat you can do an attack and a spell and consider some thinguies like casting defensively etc etc etc.

I think you can run him through the basics. If he wants to play a class let him do whatever he wants but try to reach a compromise that he will know his character.

In my current table we had a barbarian that was always like: Ok what do I do, I can attack. But I dont really wanna use rage because its weird when I rage...like know your character dude lol

[kikidmonkey]

I am currently playing a magus, it is easy enough to play but you will want to have a separate piece of paper to keep track of all your bonuses, something you can refer to and check off.