Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder Rogue's spell-casting abilities

[Roman]

Yeah. I have a non-casting Ranger I've used. But honestly, while I like it, I've found it is simply easier to stay with the core version.

Yes, I can see how that would be a possibility.

At the risk of being a broken record: I really think that, if anything, there are pretty underpowered. I doubt you would see them expect in the fringe cases where the character concept was worth a small price in total power to the player.

I mostly agree, they are underpowered and would likely only be taken for flavor reasons - that's why I am not vehemently protesting this.

But the idea of a wizard school drop-out or a budding sorcerer who was to damn lazy to ever develop it (thus turned to a rogue's life), both sound fun. And yeah, you could take 1 level to do that, but this is even less, these characters never got there at all. Sounds fun to me.

Yes, the character concept you describe does indeed sound fun. Don't get me wrong, I am not at all opposed to having some kind of sub-system that can grant minor spell-like abilities to usually non-spellcasting characters. I would, however, make it more universal and open to other characters, not as a power of a specific non-spellcasting class. It would, therefore, probably be feat-based or perhaps just allowing any character to pick a (maybe 'background') trait (some of which would include minor spell-like abilities). This would allow other such fun character concepts, not just ones tied to the rogue.