As a GM, would you allow this or not.
It definitely doesn't work by RAW. Neither of those classes have the 3 prepared slots per level that the class archetype requires.
I would probably be willing to work with the player to come up with a homebrew class archetype that does work.
I certainly wouldn't allow Magus to just use the table for "Flexible Spellcaster Spells per Day" as-is. That is a huge upgrade to the spell slot progression that Magus gets.
I also don't know exactly how to handle the Magus Studious Spells.
I'm also thinking that Magus with three cantrips and two spell slots total is a bit of a weak option. Even with Studious Spells being left completely alone.
But I also think that giving Magus all four spells in their collection and letting them cast all four spell slots in spontaneous casting fashion doesn't leave any downsides. There is pretty much no reason to not have Flexible Spellcaster archetype at that point even if the number of cantrips is reduced.
So RAW, for the rules forum - no.
Houserules for the Homebrew forum - maybe, but it would be difficult to balance properly.
Prerequisites: You must have a class, such as clerics, druids, witches, and wizards, that prepares spells in spell slots using the same number of prepared spells per day.
At no point does the class specify a requirement for 3 slots per day.
You can cast fewer spells each day. Your number of spell slots per day don't advance from 2 to 3 spells at even levels (see Table 5—1).
The main offending text. The assumption is obviously that casters would advance to three spells at even levels and not be bounded casters. However, it merely applies a rule that prevents increasing from 2 to 3 at even levels.
Strictly speaking, I don't see anything that prevents it in the rule text itself. Magus getting the full chart of spells would get hit with too good to be true though.
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Prerequisites: You must have a class, such as clerics, druids, witches, and wizards, that prepares spells in spell slots using the same number of prepared spells per day.At no point does the class specify a requirement for 3 slots per day.
You can cast fewer spells each day. Your number of spell slots per day don't advance from 2 to 3 spells at even levels (see Table 5—1).The main offending text. The assumption is obviously that casters would advance to three spells at even levels and not be bounded casters. However, it merely applies a rule that prevents increasing from 2 to 3 at even levels.
Strictly speaking, I don't see anything that prevents it in the rule text itself. Magus getting the full chart of spells would get hit with too good to be true though.
"Prerequisites: You must have a class, such as clerics, druids, witches, and wizards, that prepares spells in spell slots using the same number of prepared spells per day."
What you quoted is the requirement to have the same spell slot table as all of the listed classes.
I guess it can be read that way. I read it as a non-exhaustive list of prepared casting classes that prepare x spells in x spell slots.
Yeah, the wording on the requirements is a bit vague.
Since the archetype is giving a replacement table of spell slots per day, it has a requirement that the existing class's table of spell slots per day has to match what the Wizard, Druid, Cleric, and Witch have. Otherwise that replacement would be giving too much or too little.
If the archetype instead just had an algorithm that specified how to modify the table of spells per day, then it may be more able to modify different tables from different classes. But that isn't what the archetype does.