Thanks ! It was a challenging but really fun work and I believe I did a good job. The "mobius puppets" themselves for Louis Porter Jr. Design's Machinesmith were a creative blast to write. Just waiting for the reviews now !

Speaking about reviews, here is some playtest result from our group. Just as a reminder, we currently have 4 players, and are in our ~15th session in the current campaign. We just hit level 3 and use some of my archetypes. The group is composed of:

- DMPC: LE dark elf Bone-Conjurer summoner, using the body of his previous character (an unarmed fighter) as his slam/grappling corpse eidolon;
- LG human Yojimbo ranger, used to be slave and now specialized against slavers and oppressors, one-hit marvel Vital Strike-ing with his katana;
- LE human Scamp/Thug/Vicious Opportunist rogue, specialist of dirty tricks, debuff, black market, underground connections and social interactions;
- Myself: CN gnome Bateleur/Prankster, pyromaniac bard gnome, unhealthy gambler and Cayden worshipper;
- ... and my 1st-level CG halfling Bateleur bard, cohort/fellow devout and adventurer, a pretty girl with a frail body but a strong heart for adventure who used to work as a waitress until destiny (helped by Cayden) made her lost a gamble and she had to follow me.

I spare you the plot points and go straight to the gameplay results :

Bone-Conjurer summoner:

The DM loves his Bone-Conjurer. Since its sheer potency is reduced in comparison to a true summoner (undead apparence forced as first evolution and no life link ability helps in reducing the offensive power of this archetype), he does not overshadow us but has yet to get in danger. I believe the summonner himself did not suffer a single hit point since he started playing, and we know our DM is not the kind of ass who finds an interest in fudging or cheating for his own sake. His spells (mage armor, shield, rejuvenation, grease) and his eidolon were enough to handle combats until now; and the DM loves his encounters the hard way. His eidolon died once after we were all put KO, and he finished the fight by a hair by summoning a human skeleton.
Plus the flavor of animating the dead and having a kind-of-undead cohort is the real winner for him. Overall, no negative points raised (but some undeads were) !

Scamp rogue:

The rogue player is having a blast with his Scamp/Thug/Vicious Opportunist. That's his first time playing a character straight from 1st level (the last time was two years ago, he catch up with us at 7th level), and also his first time playing a character with a lot of skill points and roleplay-oriented abilities (his last characters were an elven "Danselame" barbarian variant gaining Dexterity instead of Strength we made before the APG, a Hound Master cavalier, then a THF wielding a maul).
He asked for the ability to wield chains and false handcuffs both for style and subtance in order to bluff enemies into not taking him seriously (helped by the Scamp archetype - he does not wear any armor and clothes in rags, including restrains that would hamper any spellcaster !), which we resolved by making these handcuffs separate brass knuckles, and the chains that stick out of them when deployed, separate whips with a 10 feet reach).
The versatility of Dirty Tricks and his separate weapons (unarmed, brass knuckle, chain whips) forces him to think. From our observations and his own words, he's improving greatly both in terms of roleplay, imagination, problem solving and system mastery, and although he complains about not dealing a lot of damage (1d3 + 4 damage when sneak attacking), he deals this damage often thanks to the Vicious Opportunist variant to sneak attack and overall, contributes greatly to the party's efficiency thanks to his debuffs (Scamp archetype's stunning fist, Thug archetype's sickening brutal beating) and dirty tricks.
- Note that the scamp has received some errata to avoid quick multiclassing from Charisma-heavy classes in order to land the bonus to AC at the cost of a single level.

Bateleur bard:

Aaaah, my dear Iolo Petitjean ! This character is a lot of fun to play. I lose a lot in knowledge skills, but the bateleur's greater abilities in handling social issues or having contacts everywhere thanks to my travels have proven useful. I'm stealth and bluff-oriented and lack diplomacy or psychology. Since I'm small-sized, I have a great AC but ugly damage unless I use my Pyromaniac fireball and the gnome spell from the ARG to reload my spell-like abilities. This helps drawing hostility thanks to the spell or the prankster's maddening performance.
Note that I am using feats from Rite Publishing's indispensable 101 Bard Feats supplement; as such, I am able to perform some feats like casting as a move action (this does not allow me to cast twice per round but increases my survivability and versatility), or reduce the metamagic cost of a feat by expanding rounds of bardic performance.
I do not overshadow the group in any way except manipulative skills (I decided not to select any enchantment or manipulation spell like charm person or dominate); and the ability to steal keys from a guard and identity papers from a drunkard with a successful Comedy check provided us a lot of laughs !
Despite having a lot of rounds of performance/day (my predilection class bonus at each level goes into additional rounds/day, I have the Maestro of the Society trait, 18 Charisma...), these rounds reduce like crazy and a single worthy combat is enough to burn through half or more of them in few rounds as soon as I need to cast quickly or use my firebreathing.
- Speaking about breathing fire, the ability has received some errata putting it at 1d4 damage/two levels + Charisma modifier, which is lower than a sorcerer's 1st-level spell's damage but scales longer and remains usable often. It also costs 1 round to activate in addition to the round to maintain the performance, which reduces even further the rounds of performance/day. This was done after seeing how much it could hurt at low levels during play.

Le premier venait de ma collaboration avec Will "Cheapy" McCardell sur The Secrets of Tactical Archetypes II (5 étoiles + Seal of Approval). J'ai également une plus petite participation sur Pathways #14 (2 archétypes: le roublard lanceur de couteaux et l'alchimiste épandeur de peste, 5 étoiles); 101 Legendary Curses (2 malédictions: Bane of the Sitting Duck et Maestro's Cursed Symphony, 5 étoiles + SoA); The Secrets of Adventuring (qui reprend l'intégralité de TSoTA II, 5 étoiles + SoA); et enfin, The Secrets of Renegade Archetype (4 étoiles + SoA; j'ai loupé le 5 à cause du formatage, sachant que j'ai déjà envoyé les correctifs nécessaires à l'éditeur).