I heard a while ago that there was going to be a playtest for the next Player's Splatbook, with classes such as the Acrobat class being tested. Is that a real thing? Is it happening in October?
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Sometime in late October, after the first round of errata is released. Acrobat isn’t being playtested though, and it’s a proper hardcover, hardly a splatbook. The 4 classes will be Investigator, Oracle, Swashbuckler, and Witch.
Sometime in late October, after the first round of errata is released. Acrobat isn’t being playtested though, and it’s a proper hardcover, hardly a splatbook. The 4 classes will be Investigator, Oracle, Swashbuckler, and Witch.
Do we know if Investigator is just a new name for the Inquisitor or not? I was kind of thinking it likely was, with Inquisitor sounding harsh for some of the more good-aligned ones but that could just be me.
Swashbuckler should be awesome, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit I'm dying for Witch.
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Sometime in late October, after the first round of errata is released. Acrobat isn’t being playtested though, and it’s a proper hardcover, hardly a splatbook. The 4 classes will be Investigator, Oracle, Swashbuckler, and Witch.Do we know if Investigator is just a new name for the Inquisitor or not? I was kind of thinking it likely was, with Inquisitor sounding harsh for some of the more good-aligned ones but that could just be me.
Swashbuckler should be awesome, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit I'm dying for Witch.
I could certainly see Inquisitor and Investigator being combined into a single class, but it would be very strange to rename one PF1 class with a name that a different PF1 class already uses.
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Sometime in late October, after the first round of errata is released. Acrobat isn’t being playtested though, and it’s a proper hardcover, hardly a splatbook. The 4 classes will be Investigator, Oracle, Swashbuckler, and Witch.Do we know if Investigator is just a new name for the Inquisitor or not? I was kind of thinking it likely was, with Inquisitor sounding harsh for some of the more good-aligned ones but that could just be me.
Swashbuckler should be awesome, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit I'm dying for Witch.
Investigator was its own class in pf1 - it was a mixture of a rogue and an alchemist with a focus on skills
Do we know if Investigator is just a new name for the Inquisitor or not? I was kind of thinking it likely was, with Inquisitor sounding harsh for some of the more good-aligned ones but that could just be me.
I doubt it. I suspect we will get the inquisitor again, because it was very popular. Though to be honest ranger with cleric dedication is a decent fill in for the moment, so it's not impossible to build a character who hunts the enemies of the faith, with a splash of spell casting. Unlike the magus, which can't be very well re-created in the system. Meanwhile the Investigator is totally different, I suspect it will be the second alchemy and skill focused class, somewhat like alchemist and rogue, with it's own unique twists.
Swashbuckler should be awesome, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit I'm dying for Witch.
I suspect on the other hand that gunslinger will be a subclass of swashbuckler, or just an archetype. If it's a subclass we might see guns in the playtest, otherwise we have to wait for the full APG. Or maybe guns are not in the book because they don't want guns to be a part of the core assumption books.
Somewhere, I'm pretty sure they indicated that Gunslingers won't be a published part of the APG. I believe they said, to do Gunslingers, they need a wide variety of guns available in the rules system for them to choose from, and that due to space constraints that wouldn't be something they would be able to include just yet.
Having said that, I was really surprised to see the number of pistols in artwork. I'm wondering if they are going to include a firearm as a proof of concept of how they think they are going to handle firearms, but simply not expand upon it just yet, leaving them time to improve on their idea, or get feedback on it. We will have to see.