Do you know of any ways to get disguise as a class skill without taking a level of rogue or something similar?
I really like the shifty spellcasting and shifty feat you get from
chameleon 2, but I'm not so big on the disguise qualifications... with a bit of alteration, it seems like the class would work fairly well as someone who's inspired by a muse or something like that, but I'd prefer to avoid the overdone secret society flavor.
My current expected progression seems something like
Blu1: Able Learner/Versatile Spellcaster
Blu3: Endurance, leading into Power to Burn? It might overlap too much with versatile spellcaster, though... possibly sculpt spell instead
Blu3/Rainbow Servant1 (to pick up good domain, which gives a backbone for my spells known)
Blu4/RS1/ Chameleon 1: Power To Burn, maybe. If not, who knows?
Blu4/RS1/Chameleon 2: Adaptive bonus feat. Scribe Scroll or similar in downtime, temporary Sapphire School Mastery when I need to learn something.
After that, I'll probably be going straight Blue Mage until I get Turquoise Efficiency, just because it's so fun. I figure that my flexible chameleon bonus feat should be enough to compensate for not getting Improved Azure Awareness.
That should only be three sources used - the Blue Mage class itself (which you'll probably end up tweaking), Races of Destiny (although you have the web enhancement available), and Complete Divine.
EDIT: And those bolded parts of your first post... are they to mark which lines Solid Snake would repeat if he were reading this?