Complete Adventurer

A sourcebook that proclaims itself as offering options for “skillful” classes.

It starts off with three new core classes. The ninja feels like a monk/rogue/assassin, while the scout feels like a combo of ranger/druid/rogue. The last is a spellthief, offering a strange set of abilities that allows the character to “steal” spells, abilities, powers, and even resistances of those they sneak attack... a bit odd, and there isn't even any attempt to try and flavour it. Still, these classes are somewhat unique and different from the core classes.

The prestige classes are all over the place. Despite being targeted for “skillful” classes, you'll also find prestige classes more suited to druids, mages, and warriors here. There's only a handful that are specifically targeted for rogues and bards. Seven of them organisation-specific prestige classes.

Skills and feats are the usual stuff - extra rules options, extra skill use options, new feats - nothing that really stands out I suppose. It's the same for the equipment section - although the alchemical items that provide skill boosts are somewhat interesting. There are also a couple of off-topic, though interesting, exotic weapons here. The new spells though are rather nice, with nice additions for bards and assassins. Oh, and there's also a very short (3 pages or so) section at the end of the sourcebook (odd placement) explaining about epic levels and a few skill-based epic feats.

What I liked best was the details on several different kinds of organisations that you could flesh out more and drop into a campaign. They take up over two dozen pages, including details like how to join, typical members, leadership, tendencies, and some bits of current affairs. There are also some random tables that lets you generate an organisation if you so need to.

Overall, the sourcebook was just mildly interesting and there are some stuff here that just that felt more like padding than originally intended content.