Hey Phillip,
Thanks for grabbing the product! So the Bard & Ranger have official releases from the Arcane Library. Can be found on their Discord as well. The Witch, Warlock, & Knight are from The Cursed Scroll Zines, again from Arcane Library. Though the Knight is more generic than their Cursed Knight of St.Ydris. The Shaman has no "official" version, though a number of other talented creators have made Shaman Classes. One in particular being Unnatural Selections.
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Daniel.
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There are definitely some large boons and banes within the tables, but that's kind of the whole point. To give some extra twists and turns to a new character. Some players and GMs, especially those new to TTRPGs, may find it too much, which is completely understandable. This is very much something not designed to give a perfectly "balanced" or "fair" character, its more about creating a unique and different start to the game. I know i enjoy having a few key moment/concepts to play a character around. Like a wizard that struggles to learn new spells, but deals double damage in rage at people that have injured them. And i think much like if you rolled a character's stats all 6's (or 18's), if your Life-Path was a bit too OP or debilitating, i would just roll it all again.
There are definitely one or two where I was like “Is this too strong, or too harsh"? But I think it's kind of like rolling stats, sometimes you get too many 6's or too many 18's, and it's up to each player and GM to decide if it's worth a re-roll or to alter or to just let it fly and see what happens.
And cheers! I was really happy with the layout.