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Grapple rules, confused a little after looking them up again. Linking relevant information first.

I remember going with a light shield over a heavy shield to facilitate grappling, but now I'm not sure if it really helps. You never actually lose the shield bonus while holding another item in the hand, but can't hold a weapon. Grappling would seem pretty involved and probably equivalent to a weapon. Comparing it to a buckler, which would allow grappling (at a -1) or any other weapon use, but can't shield bash, they seem rather equivalent in trade offs. So I think I screwed up there.

In this case, Thorthal probably would have unstrapped and dropped the shield instead of gaining Improved Grapple. The grapple check would have been 15 (17 without grapple penalty), which is probably sufficient to grapple the creature?

Sorry about that, I probably shouldn't have disengaged from the skeleton.

I like option 1 better, but the only problem is handling abilities / feats that modify attack rolls. Mainly I'm thinking combat maneuvers. Option 2 doesn't solve anything in this case, and option 3 is really slow. Perhaps, in the case of my character, is it a possibility for you to consider whether the use of a combat maneuver would be appropriate at the time, and act on that?

I'm just trying to look for a way to stick to option 1, but not have everything default to attacks. If there isn't a middle ground, option 1 is still fine, as option 3 would probably bog the game down too much for the minor advantage gained from it.

Why not, what could possibly go wrong?

I can't seem to find where to edit the profile to make the bar of stats appear. I can do it with a pathfinder society character, but not an alias. Where do I find the options for that on an alias?

Hello, not really sure what I will want to play. I'll probably just wait until everyone else has narrowed things down a bit and try to fill in some holes. I also have no problems with playing the requisite one Human, and may do so anyways if someone else already has.