[Hellstrom]

With Marister yes, I do not want to multiclass. He is kind of a free spirit but not roguish to the point he wants to break into places and such. :)

Rogue doesn't mean thief. You can take levels of rogue, put points into Hide, Move Silent, and UMD and just not put points into Lockpicking or Pickpocketing. Taking levels of rogue doesn't mean a thing about breaking the law or being bad... you can easily have a lawful good rogue.

I am not against what has been suggested but I understand the work involved in changing such.

It frankly sounds dead simple to do and since Wids' point was all about Perform (Animal Handling and UMD were only mentioned to say it would be BAD to modifiy those) I don't have any problem with making Perform available to other classes as it would be of no practical use to any except bards.

The only question I'd have for you Wids is this: this thread seemed to start out as a bit of musing on a topic and now seems to have solidified a bit more into a proposed change. But I don't understand the purpose of the change - are you proposing a new faction be added and making suggestions for the requirements for it, or are you thinking about this in terms of a specific character you'd like to make? :)