…However don’t waste too much time hunting typos and mistakes… I’m a fair writer in terms of content but a rather horrible editor of my own work….

I’d blame English as a second language but I can’t really…

Cayzle:

Yan designed the class to meet with his own requirements as a player. His response tends to show that.

Your points on potential exploits are extremely well thought-out and relevant, I thank you for taking the time to give us feedback on it.

While Yan prefers to disallow Multi-classing on the basis that it’s a merged racial/class (much like Savage Species requires taking full racial levels before gettinf a character class) I’m more open to the idea of multi-classing.

Here’s my proposed fix, that I’ll edit in the Shaper 2.0 version:

The shaper gains invisibility at will as a Spell-Like ability at level 1.

At level 4, the Invisibility ability can be activated using a Move-equivalent action that does not trigger an attack of opportunity.

At level 8, the Shaper gains Greater invisibility at will.

I’ll add all the skills you proposed except Ride. If a player wants a Power Bumblebee build, he should work for it… But bonus points for style!

That being said, at level 13, your power build would not worry me that much. I’m sure that my Iron Heroes Archer and Book of 9 Swords Crusader are going to be in the same power range…

Cheers!

Perform was supposed to be there Phil just forgot it in his transcript.

Craft and profession should also be there as every class has them.
The rest does not fit the class as a spell casting class.

Secondly: The intent was to combined the progression of the sorcerer and the pixie with no intention to allow multi-class. A pixie either takes this path or use the usual stat progression of the said race. So no you cannot multi-class with a Rogue. (pixie/rogue is already a powerful combo that we have no intent in further enhancing)

But both are good point; the skills are missing and so is the multi-classing restriction thanks for your comments.

So if a class offers 6+Int ranks per level, then it should have at least 10 class skills.

But your pixie class has only 9: Concentration (Con), Diplomacy (Cha), Knowledge (Nature)(Int), Knowledge (Religion)(Int), Knowledge (Arcana)(Int), Listen (Wis), Spellcraft (Int), Spot (Wis) and Survival (Wis).

Moreover, there are some very obvious misses, I think. Perform, for one! Pixies are musical!

Also, Craft, for sure, and maybe Profession.

Finally, in keeping with the tricksy fey theme, I would suggest Bluff and Sleight of Hand.

Finally, I’d personally like to see Ride and Shortbow so that a pixie could ride a medium size giant bumblebee or dire frog and shoot arrows.

For game balance, I would not grant Improved Invisibility at level one. I’d make it plain invisibility and give Improved Invisibiity at a higher level, say 8th or 10th.

If I were power-gaming this pixie, I’d totally take 7-10 levels of pixie, three levels of rogue, and then switch to Arcane Trickster. Permanent Improved Invisibility means every shot is a sneak attack, which adds not only to arrows but to spells that require to hit rolls.

If improved invis were a level 1 option, I’d be tempted to take just one or two levels of Shaper, then go into Rogue big time and get my medium bumblebee cohort at level 6 with a Leadership feat. Since you can fly on a mount AND make a full round attack (with multiple arrows) while moving, I’d totally take rapid shot and get 2-3+ sneak attacks every round. 1d6-2 might not seem too bad, until you are adding 3-5+ d6 with each shot.

I sent the table to Yan for some proper proof-reading and will repost them tonight.

It as become second nature to meddle with the mechanic of a game and tweak them too improve some part or add stuff to it.

That is part of the reason Phil sent me the challenge he knew I would do it without hesitation.

I would have loved to be in the gaming industry but…

1- It does not pay well.
2- You are expected to work for inhuman hours. (especially the computer game industry)
3- You rarely have the position to really influence a game.

Bottom line if you don’t want to end up hating your hobby might as well stay away from it in the professional sense…

1) Easier

2) Not as formally written up

It’s the formatting and careful writing of the rules that takes so long.

And while I’ve always enjoyed rules… it’s a recent development that I had the guts to open the game’s hood and tweak with it.