> does anyone know how many variations are in PoA, akin to choosing different classes in ToA? I'm aware of the "cat option" but how many others? Comments?

There are three very minor things that come to mind, all of which were put in just to handle unlikely eventualities.

The first is that you can meet Sawyer in the arboretum if you don't manage to encounter him until late in the game (it's almost exactly the same text, so it's not worth playing again just to find).

The second is that a certain item can be found in two possible places. If you've played through most of the game, you might be able to think of an item which you can acquire almost immediately, but which you don't *have* to acquire until very very late...and if you do put off getting it, it's impossible to reach the location where you'd normally get it. So to handle that, I had the item get moved to a more accessible location after a certain point in the story. Again, it's not worth the trouble of playing through just to see it. I think I've only seen one person find this item in its second location, but of course there are probably more cases that I didn't see.

The third difference is only slightly more interesting than the first two, but it's a secret (more difficult to find than GOA's secret area). And the reason it will remain a secret is an even bigger secret. So in lieu of having a secret area, I guess POA has a secret event scene. I think Sam saw it during testing (maybe by looking through the code), but as far as I know no player has ever come across it.