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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 3648166" data-attributes="member: 22882">I'm mostly not going to list ones I saw as a player or GM in this section.  On to...As a GM I've used:Courtier (Rokugan)An absolute must-have.  The ideal party face/skill monkey, and a great class for important but combat-incompetent NPCs.  I've used it again and again, always to great effect.Magister (Arcana Evolved)A better-designed wizard, basically.  Flavorful, great mechanics.  Perhaps a bit complex for an NPC, though.Martial Artist (Beyond Monks: The Art of the Fight)Monk flurry with barbarian rage and fighter BAB?  OMG teh br0kenz!!  Actually a balanced class in a glass cannon sense, because its AC is just *horrible* and it has only d8 hp.  It's essentially an offense-focused monk class, whereas the PHB version is defense-focused.  Great for NPCs, but I would be reluctant to take it for a PC unless the force/action point to avoid death rule were in use.Mystic (Dragonlance Campaign Setting)A very weak spontaneous divine caster.  Possibly balanced to non-casters, meaning it looks all but unplayable compared to regular casters.  Conceptually more appealing than the more core-power-level-like favored soul, though.Shugenja (Oriental Adventures/Rokugan/Complete Divine)A good elementalist caster who is considered divine but doesn't play like it.  I saw one in play, too, in retrospect.  Weaker than core casters, but then, who isn't?  Some of the spell list seemed odd; I was disappointed with a fire-typed shugenja's lack of some of the arcane blaster spells, for example.Soulknife (Expanded Psionics Handbook)Now that I think about it, I saw one of these in play, too.  A neat class, well designed, but very, very narrow.Swashbuckler (Complete Warrior)The best three-level class WotC ever produced, definitely better than the racial paragons.  It allegedly has a 20-level progression, but this is misleading: its capstone ability, and the last really good one it gets, is at 3rd level.Unfettered (Arcana Evolved)Excellent light fighter class.  Possibly a bit weak, especially compared to his big buddy the warmain.Warlock (Complete Arcane)Deserves special mention as an NPC class.  SO much easier to use and create than traditional spellcasters; this one is a godsend even if a PC never takes a level.Warmain (Arcana Evolved)Excellent heavy fighter class.  Stronger than the core fighter (at least without taking PHB2 feats into account, because that wasn't out at the time I last ran a warmain) but less versatile, it's not exactly locked into the tank role but it certainly fits best there.Witch (Arcana Evolved)Rather weak spellcastery-type class, probably better balanced than the core spellcasters and with a lot of flavorful abilities.  Not pathetic, but certainly not on par with a wizzie, cleric or pre-polymorph druid, or even the better-balanced AE magister.</blockquote>

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