so i was wondering, which of these two roguish casters fit the billet of magical rogue better?
I randomly found this archetype on the PFSRD and was greatly intrigued. It is very much like the AT but has the benefit of being like so right out of the gate. While its casting is a much more limited, it can cast in armor and gains all the benefits of being spell-like abilities. Additionally, since it is an archetype, it still has full rogue trick progression and sneak attack progression. Additionally, he is capable of using his magic class abilities to count as minor/major magic for regards to pre-reqs.
I personally feel the archetype fits the magical rogue more than the AT who feels more like a stealthy mage more than a rogue.
What are your guys thoughts
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Well, Street Magician is a third party archetype, so they tend to do things a bit differently than Paizo products. I'm not going to say they are all always more powerful than 1st party products, but... it does happen from time to time. They also tend to be more relaxed about certain 1st part design structures that keep classes from mixing too much.
The street magician looks pretty awful to me, it takes away many of the most important rogue abilities and replaces them with a much smaller number of very meh abilities. You would be much better simply being a caster and dipping rogue if that is really what you want.
Yeah.
I am just curious because I love the IDEA of the magical thief. The thief who is not a MAGE (i.e. he can't stand toe to toe with a guy who spent his whole life perfecting magic in a magical duel) but still has magical capabilities.
The problem I have always had with AT is that, barring racial SLA shinanigins, they take a second to get online and my GM likes to play alot of low level games.