My Sorcerer saw more melee combat then almost anyone else. Things happened where the monsters often got the jump on us and zeroed in on the weakest looking character, me.
Surely you mean the most powerful looking character. Intelligent foes should target casters because they are often the biggest threat. That is what PCs usually do. Of course less intelligent ones might go for one that looks most vulenerable.
That is why my casters often try to look like another class: wear a monk's outfit; a rapier at your waist and a lyre on your back; or a leather jacket and several daggers.
It's fun to reverse that, too. One of my characters has familiar, wears robes, and holds a staff. Enemies typically assume he is a wizard, witch, or sorcerer when in fact he is a Hexcrafter/Staff Magus wearing glamoured armor.
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Also, usually the fighter, if not the rogue, is the one who trips the traps, so it shouldn't be you having to take the pit. The fighter has the hp for it, the rogue will probably make his reflex save and not fall in. The use of featherfall to prevent bombard is also not allowed.
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Since alchemist fires and the lot have like a 10 feet range increment, it's definitely not going to be falling that "quite a distance" and so the spell will have no effect.
The bombard trick specifies the creature can only drop items from directly overhead, and can't throw them. Dropped items have a range increment of 20ft (as per the core book p.443) and we don't care, in this situation, what the thrown range increment is, 'cos it 'ain't being thrown. Any dropped/falling item allows a Reflex save to take half damage - so anyone with Evasion can already dodge the thing completely. If you've got time to dodge it, and it's falling, then I'd suggest that you can Feather Fall the sucker as an immediate action, despite the nebulous nature of the undefined 'quite a distance' criteria you mention. If we were to try to define 'quite a distance' then I guess it may be 30ft plus, as that's the point where falling objects cease to inflict half damage, but it's a GM call either way... but YMMV, of course.
