Kicking of the week we have two new classes out. First is the Chi Warrior by Brian Jolly.
The focus of stories and fables alike, all history remembers the acts of a true hero. Adventurers at heart, a chi warrior is rarely found idle, instead going out to leave their mark on the world in whatever way they can. There are those who love challenging the impossible, slaying dragons and demons alike while bringing back exotic trophies of their slaughtered foes. Others work to overthrow oppression, rarely abiding a tyrant in their lands.
Most chi warriors feel right at home with barbarians and rogues, finding a great deal in common through their travels. A bard and a chi warrior can have a friendship that is as legendary as their accomplishments, each complimenting the other. Chi warriors are often at odds with monks and lawful divine characters, their rigid codes rub the more free spirited chi warrior the wrong way.
Chi warriors generally pay little attention to the gods, seeing them more as inspiring idols than objects of veneration. Terrestrial affairs concern them far more, chi warriors sometimes keep a journal to chronicle honorable opponents and glory won in battle.
Vain and prideful, chi warriors can be reckless in battle, proving a touch too wild for allies. But rarely will they go as far as to put their comrades in danger, preferring to face the most dangerous challenges themselves. Drawn to trouble like moths to a flame, chi warriors are rarely wanting for combat, finding the experience invigorating as they use their opponent as a canvas for their artistic expression. As long as chi warriors can walk, they can fight, often pushing the body to the breaking point and beyond.
The Chi Warrior is a new full-BAB base class for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
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Second is Carl Cramer's reimagining of the Student of War PRC as a full 20-level class.
Student of War
To hear most warriors talk, battles are won by heart and grit, by sharp iron and mighty thews. Yet the student of war knows that the key to victory is the mind behind the mettle, the training that guides the blade, and the knowledge of when and where to strike.
Prestige Class: Student of War.
Build Class: Fighter.
Role: Armed with knowledge and hardened by constant drill and practice, the student of war fills her repertoire with tricks and techniques designed to exploit every weakness and negate every advantage of her studied foes.
What is a Prestige Archetype?
A prestige archetype is a prestige class turned into a normal 20-level class, similar to an archetype or alternate class.
The goal when making these prestige archetypes has been to capture the flavor of the prestige class rather than to make an exact copy of how it would normally be. Attack bonuses, hit dice, class skills, spells, and class features have been unified and spread evenly over levels. This means that most prestige archetypes have their prestige abilities spread over the entire 20 level spread. Unlike how prestige classes normally work, these archetypes have a few complete class abilities rather than many abilities limited to a low level. In some cases, you get the choice of one of several class abilities rather than stymied versions of all the abilities.
A prestige archetype generally has elements of one or more regular character classes, to represent how prestige prerequisites were met and character development after the prestige class has ended. Sometimes there is more than one class that naturally leads itself to a particular prestige class, which can lead to several different prestige archetypes for different combinations. A few are not built on a regular class, instead expanding the idea behind the prestige class to a full 20 levels. —Carl Cramér
This is part of the Warrior Prestige Archetype Work-In-Progress.
@Mark, I'm gobsmacked.
You've cut and pasted the flavor text from the Chi Warrior, which doesn't explain the function of the class.
Similarly, you've cut and pasted the "What is a Prestige Archetype" text that accompanies every one of Starfox/Carl Cramer's PrC to Full 20 lvl class conversions. But nothing really tells me what the Student of War does apart from having "tricks and techniques".
I guess what I'm saying is that you could present these two classes much better with far fewer, more direct words.
Sorry.