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I am planning on giving it a try first. They have done revisions since the playtest. I have learned that sometimes something looks like it would suck but is actually fun to play. When I started playing Pathfinder the Magus looked like a stupid class with silly things added on (arcane pool, spell strike, etc). Then I played one. I was happy to say that I was wrong. Now I would recommend it to people.
I never ban entire books unless, somehow, the ENTIRE book is broken. Banning a whole book for having some iffy content is just asinine.
That said, I'm not shy about banning things regardless of source. I usually ban clerics, druids, and wizards, f'rex.
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Deja vu
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I don't see why I would.
I don't honestly see a problem with it
Normally GMs have good reasons or reasonable personal preference for banning source material. Normally. As far as I'm aware of, the only major concern is the arcanist, who steps on the toes of the sorcerer while eating the delicious cake of the wizard. I'm fairly certain they nerfed the arcanist from the playtest, but I foresee GMs banning this class out of principle.
The Arcanist is balanced against his competition, the wizard and sorcerer.
All of the rest of the classes are either so glaringly weak that they won't even get played (warpriest) or such a sigh of relief that the devs have finally answered some prayers of the playerbase (slayer).
Nothing in the book lacks game balance, we went through two playtests for a reason.
As far as banning material outright, I have played in games where DMs only allow certain books, and in pretty much all cases I walk away from such games because DMs who need to control everything tend to also have a hard time with players succeeding at their challenges in any way other than the one he has pre-scripted.
We instituted a 3 month policy. A book has to be out for at least 3 months before you can use it in game. This allows the message boards to solve a lot of our problems we might encounter in game for us. It also lets everyone get familiar with the content before hand.
So short answer no but that might change in a few months.
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Deja vuAbort mission, return to base.
Requoting for emphasis.
Guys flag and move on. This guy necro'd his own thread too.
