Good review. It's nice to see how your reservations matched up with actual play.
Though, I don't want to be an ass, but the word for the thiefy class in D&D is ROGUE. R-O-G-U-E.
ROUGE is a kind of makeup and a supporting character in Sonic the Hedgehog.
It'd be a very different kind of game if there was makeup running around doing 24 damage to people with its Daily.