Hi there! I'm going to be running a game with 5 players this year, and it's going from 1 to 20. I'm dedicated to the point where I set up a custom college class with one of my more enthusiastic professors centered around making this thing functional, but that's just to give you an example of how much breadth the campaign has. Anyways, my problem is with one of my players. Currently, the party looks as such.
Player 1 - Inquisitor (Sword and Board) (Tank, Front Lines)
Player 2 - Bladebound Magus (Strength Build) (Front Lines)
Player 3 - Legalistic Oracle (Waves Mystery) (Reach Weapon Combat)
Player 4 - Bolt Ace Gunslinger (Back Line)
The fifth player wants to be the parties dedicated caster. Whether it's control, destruction, or buffs, it doesn't matter. He wants to be the dedicated back lines caster of the 5. The only problem with this, however, is he origanally wanted to play an Occultist. I'm not savvy on the Occult book, unfortunately, but I'm not about to reject anything that's a recent first party book when so many swear by it.
That said, what would you suggest? Is it possible to maintain his back line full caster status as an occultist, or are they ill-suited for that role? I'm aware they can be front liners, though not amazing tanks, per say, but he was expecting to be a back line caster. What would you suggest? His race that he wants to play has a -4 wisdom modifier (Though it does get Iron Will as a bonus feat. I'm calling it a Yeedaus.) It gets a +4 Intelligence modifier and a +2 Constitution.
Occultist is quite limited in it's ability to function as a pure caster. He's better off with a Psychic, or a Sorcerer with a Psychic bloodline for occult related things.
Um... there is only one new fullcasting class in the book.
Might just be a confusion of names. Have your player look at Occultist and Psychic and see which one they really meant. Other possibility would be some archetype of Psychic that has Occultist features, but none is out, and I haven't heard of one in the works (hybrid archetypes are moderately common in Paizo's offerings, but they don't have this particular combination).
Fortunately we rectified the whole mess by convincing him to play a void wizard with a dangerous interest in the dark tapestry. He was bummed about the Occultist not being a full caster, but, thankfully we came to a good conclusion. Thanks for the help!