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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1798679" data-attributes="member: 6533">The AkashicThe one class I've seen that absolutely filled a hole in the core classes was the akashic from Arcana Unearthed.Without that you just can't do a straight up adventuring skill user without bringing on a lot of unnecessary baggage.  The adventuring sage or scholar archetype is entirely missing.You could run a rogue, but then your absolutely trap and combat oriented and there are large areas of knowledge you can't get into in the guessing and inspired way that the adventuring scholar archetype traditionally does. The akashic struck me as the perfect way to handle that niche and run around and still be useful in a variety of situations and in an interesting fashion, something no variation of the expert has yet achieved.It has it's flaws, the full armor proficiency thing is a little odd, and the flavor strikes people oddly, but the memory user flavor is easily swapped out and no core class is, as yet, flawless in its own right.Still, something like that needs to be in there, and then maybe the bard can be the straight up skill-user/magic-user hybrid it's meant to be.</blockquote>