Does Favored Enemy come from his most famous power: racism?
No, that's just Gygax. Dwarves, gnomes, and elves all had racist powers at the time too, if I'm remembering correctly.
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So the alchemist is now the AID?I'd be fine with just
Alchemist => Alchemical Items Dispenser.
Yeah... it can be helpful to have one... but you don't want more than that.
Half-necroing a 5 day old thread to spill my thoughts.
- Alchemist -> Concoctor, since they mix stuff together to make The Thing!
- Barbarian -> BAZAKAH! Reminds me of the Fate/ Servant class, filled with iconic heroes such as Heracles, Lancelot, and Paul Bunyan!
- Bard -> Storyteller, as songs of old here meant to take historical information and condense it, and make it easier to pass on; plus stories are how Occult magic function best, according to the SoM document.
- Champion -> Oath Keeper, as the Oath class feature is the thing now, it should be right in the name, no?
- Cleric -> Priest(?) honest Cleric is fine, and there's so many synonyms for it that you can pick pretty much anything.
- Druid -> Warden, since they look over and protect nature, and keep destructive forces out (or try to.)
- Fighter -> Blade Master, although that name sorta precludes bludgeoning weapons, it's not that meaningful since it still implies they can kick butt with anything they swing.
- Gunsliger -> Marksmen, since they're all about that accuracy (and it's the LoL term for ADCs.)
- Inventor -> Machinist, since they're mechanically inclined, and strictly technologic, plus machinist has been a term since antiquity.
- Investigator -> Seeker, or Detective; honestly, Investigator is fine but Seeker adds some spice to it.
- Magus -> Spellblade, since it's more to the point about their gimmick and a semi-iconic term nowadays.
- Monk -> Ascetic is honestly a really good name someone else came up with, but for my own entry, Savant.
- Oracle -> Honestly can't find a name for them, the fantasy so so niche while also being pretty wide, nothing captures the idea quite like 'Oracle' does.
- Psychic -> Esper/Psyker/Mentalist, all of them get the idea across of mind-brain super powers, so have at the gamut of terms that mean that.
- Ranger -> Hunter, as that fits the slightly new direction of "screw that guy" the Ranger has carved for itself.
- Rogue -> Trickster, since they're a more underhanded "smoke and mirrors" class.
- Sorcerer -> Gremory, one of the goetic demons and the peak caster class in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, it honestly sounds pretty rad.
- Summoner -> Pact Binder, since it's more evocative of the "I have one super strong buddy" compared to the archetypal 'summoner' being a guy who makes lots of mooks.
- Swashbuckler -> Myrmidon, pulling from Fire Emblem again (and history), the myrmidons were a cluster of rather fast hit-and-run combatants in the Iliad, and a high speed/dex class in FE, seems to line up with Swash in PF2e.
- Thaumaturge -> Esoteric, or Occultist (although that was a spell caster in PF1e, so maaayyyybe not that one) due to them being all oogabooga dangly bits do magic n' stuff.
- Witch -> Warlock if you wanna be historically accurate, even though it's now a loaded term in the TTRPG space; Cultist if you want some pejorative in your class name; Heretic is also pejorativey but is a lot more concise with what the class fantasy is about, so eh?
- Wizard -> Arcanist/Magician/Invoker due to them being the magical dood above all magical doods in theory, albeit not so much in execution. The name should fit "I DO THE MAGIC THING!" harder than any other class, and I think those fit pretty good imo.
Seems like with the remaster, Paizo may come up with some subclasses that might share names with stuff people have posted thus far, wouldn't that be neat?