2 New Classes Announced

[MerrikCale]

The 2 new classes to be in the Advanced Players Guide are the Witch which combines dvine and arcane magic and the Inquisitor which is a skill anc combat focused divine caster (limited spell casting ability). The Inquisitor gets better in the fights as the fight continues and he learns about his enemy

Also, there will be a Templar alternative to the Paladin allowing all alignments to have holy warriors.

Yes!

 

[Starsunder]

Yeah that really sounds awesome.

Oracle sounds pretty damn sweet too.

 

[MerrikCale]

Oracle sounds pretty damn sweet too.

The concept of the oracle sounds like what favored soul should have been in Compete Divine- a unique class

 

[Aeson]

So are going to expect a new player's handbook every year like another popular fantasy game we know?


Inquisitor does sound like fun though.

 

[MerrikCale]

I thought I read somewhere that there will be 1 or 2 hard covers a year

 

[Arkhandus]

There's hardly any similarity between Pathfinder having an occasional supplement with a few new or revised classes and what WotC is doing with their everything-core multiple-new-power-source sets of new "core" books etc. every year. D&D 3.5 had a PHB 2, DMG 2, and MM 2, but they weren't core and weren't followed by others in the same lines (except the MM, since there are a lot of monsters in D&D and always a use for more of 'em to surprise players with).

I suspect that Pathfinder will present a few updated or alternate classes over time until they've Pathfinderized the more popular/common classes. WotC put out a ton of new classes; a few by Pathfinder in an early supplement isn't a bad sign. If you saw 2 or 3 books a year by Paizo adding 3+ new classes each, beyond the first year of groundwork-building, then you could understandably worry about another WotC-complex.

 

[MerrikCale]

True. The plan I believe is to publish 3 hardcover rule books per year

 

[NewJeffCT]

The 2 new classes to be in the Advanced Players Guide are the Witch which combines dvine and arcane magic and the Inquisitor which is a skill anc combat focused divine caster (limited spell casting ability). The Inquisitor gets better in the fights as the fight continues and he learns about his enemy

Also, there will be a Templar alternative to the Paladin allowing all alignments to have holy warriors.

Yes!

But, how do you know she's a witch?

 

[gamerprinter]

Like they used to...

But, how do you know she's a witch?

Just push her into a pool or pond, if she floats, she's a witch, if she sinks and drowns she's not a witch - that's the way it worked in the old days, probably the same today!

GP

 

[James Jacobs]

So are going to expect a new player's handbook every year like another popular fantasy game we know?

The goal is to pretty much say everything we have to say about not only the six new base classes, but all of the other variants (new spells, feats, prestige classes, etc.) for the core game as well in 2010's Advanced Player's Guide,... and that's it. We're planning on doing only 3 hardcover books a year, and after the Advanced Player's Guide the topics of those books will become more specialized. A psionics book is certainly possible, as is an epic book or an Asia-themed book or an outer-space themed book or whatever. There's little interest at Paizo in a relentless march of non-themed rules expansion books beyond 2010.