Pretty much all I want to know is when you think of "3rd party" classes, what comes to mind? I'm not really looking for a "x class is op and y sucks," I'm just curious what experiences people have had with third party. If there's a 3P race that jumps out, please feel free to share that as well.
For example, I've had experience with the kobold press battle scion, the vorpal knight and the rite publishing draconic exemplar.
The battle scion I think is just fine, the only thing that I'd say it would need is a personal spell list.
The vorpal knight is a class I so want to use and have players use, but it just gets too much with its soul aspects ability. Even an inexperienced player could outshine a vet using this class.
The draconic exemplar is honestly very cool. It also suffers similarly as the vorpal knight in that it is very good, with six natural attacks being the biggest tribute. Removing the wing attacks/gore helps reign it in, but still.
I let a player use the stalker base class, vigilante archetype (Path of War) as a prestige class to fix up a messed up build. Worked fine and was a perfect fit thematically.
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I ran a campaign set in Green Ronin's Freeport: The City of Adventure setting that we converted from 3.5 to Pathfinder halfway through. One of the PCs was a freebooter, a pirate-themed class unique to the setting (in both 3.5 and PF versions). It had a lot in common with the fighter, swashbuckler, and rogue classes, but had its own unique feel.
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I let anything from Dreamscarred's Ultimate Psionics in my game. They're well made, well balanced.
Note: as a president of a gaming company, I'm endorsing another company's product. That should tell you just how good that book is.
I ran a campaign set in Green Ronin's Freeport: The City of Adventure setting that we converted from 3.5 to Pathfinder halfway through. One of the PCs was a freebooter, a pirate-themed class unique to the setting (in both 3.5 and PF versions). It had a lot in common with the fighter, swashbuckler, and rogue classes, but had its own unique feel.
The Freebooter is a good one.