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Hi Brent,
Paizo staff have stated that while the Beginner Box is necessary to help new players enter the hobby, they don't wish to support two rules systems (eg Expert Box) going forward - supporting too many product lines, means spreading customers thinner across each line, and therefore making each less profitable, which has been attributed to the fall/bankruptcy of TSR former publisher of D&D.
The intent of the Beginner Box is to ease new players into the rules of the game, once players become familiar with the rules presented in the Beginner Box, gaining an understanding how concepts like race, class, skills, feats, spells etc fit together to build a character and the effect they have on the game, then players looking for more variety will hopefully find these options among the many other Pathfinder soucebooks available, which are perfectly compatible with the Beginner Box rules.
The fan community is also a great place to find classes and other elements from the Pathfinder RPG Reference Document reformatted Beginner Box style. EdOWar in another thread has done exactly this, posting Beginner Box style classes for download on his Blog: http://edowarsblog.wordpress.com/downloads/ - they look rather good!
Thanks for the reference DarkWhite. :)
I'm slowly working through all the additional core classes. When they're finished I'll put them together into a single document.
-Ed
That will be an incredible resource once you do Ed. I just picked up the BB for my daughter to run for her friends (I run labyrinth Lord for her/them) and am gathering your classes to give her more options if she wants them. I say the more the merrier! IMO, you can add more options without increasing the complexity of the game.
That sounds cool Ed. I have been thinking about when to move on past the BB, but that would give us a chance to try out some of the other classes in the "kiddie pool" before we jump in the ocean.