Bartok Flynwick's page

You see before you a short halfing with sandy brown hair, dressed in what appears to be the latest fashions of Absolom, but the colors are garishly mismatched. He has a small backpack and long spear propped against the chair he's sitting in while reading a thick tome. He looks up and notices you.
Oh, hello! My name is Bartok Flynwick. I bet you're hear for the mission briefing too, huh? We always go on the best missions for the society. I wonder where we'll go and who I'll meet this time? This one time, I went to the Oppara for a wedding, and another time to the Bandu Hills where I got chased by a giant lizard, and another time... am I rambling? You've got that look that people get when I start rambling. Anyway, we haven't worked together before, so let me tell you why I'm here. I'm really good at remembering things about places and beasties, and I can pick a lock with the best of them. I've found it's best to leave combat to you tall folks, while I focus on teamwork and making everyone better at it. But don't worry, I'll be right there next to you with my spear to defend us. Also, people seem to like me and usually I get along with even the most foul-tempered folk (points at dwarf in corner). Oh, and I can brew up these little infusions to help everyone on the team out. I'm sorry, I've been talking a lot, what did you say your name was?

I have a character portrait and custom mini for Bartok. His table tent shows his Aid Another for skills at +4, attack +5, and defense +6. He's built around skill checks and Aid Another with the Bodyguard feat. He's an Investigator (Empiricist) 7 / Ranger (Freebooter) 1 with his next level going into Pathfinder Delver, then back into Investigator for the rest of his career. He's been described as the least annoying kender you've ever met.

In your parlance I have reached 7th level as an Empiricist Investigator. I find that the Decemvirate always seems to send me off on missions with the strangest groups of people. It's fantastic! I've met so many interesting folks, and they generally seem to appreciate how useful I am at knowing all kinds of things, and being able to pick locks, as well as talk the pants off a Taldan noble (the poor fellow). I'm always finding ways to make my allies more capable in combat and keep enemies from hitting them.

Bartok is my current favorite character and I find he basically crushes most skill challenges, and auto-aids with his helpful +4 when someone else can take point. For early levels he mostly just aided another in combat, but with bodyguard feat buffing with his AoOs, plus studied combat he's been taking a more direct combat roll in recent levels.