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The Skald has draconic disciple written all over it.
A Viking warrior and story teller reciting exploit of his ancestor during battle, wearing a dragon scale armor with assorted dragon winged helm and a to press the point on, a dragon heralded banner, casting in the midst of battle with the added physical stats of dragon disciple levels. It’s fluff wise hard to beat and quite potent build wise, while being manly.

You want for traits: magical knack ( +2 caster levels/up to PC level ) and armor expert
Feats: Lingering performance, flag bearer, power attack, arcane strike
Items: cloak of the poets to get access to inspire courage, and banner of ancient kings to make DM cry.
Spells: I’d favor the immediate action like gallant inspiration, saving finale but you still have full caster level and lots of save or suck spells.

This is the basics, but it’s pretty easy to give +6 to hit & dmg to the entire group (+2 inspire courage via cloak/banner, +2 from flagbearer/banner, +2 from Rage). This is a lot of indirect damage, and you still have a rage power of choice to add on top of that.

With a basic 18 strength, considering rage and 4 levels of Dragon disciple, you’d have 26 strength. With a mundane longspear in 2h, power attack with arcane strike, rage and inspire going, it’s 1d8+ 20 dmg without trying. And there is better polearms out there like a fauchard if you spend the feat…

A cash grab is certainly involved. But It also seems a bit unfair for most of Paizo's work to be sold by a third party company with no profit to Paizo. Paizo has really been fairly ungreedy for a big company, considering how much of their work is freely available on the Internet.

Well, as a gaming group we do own a good dozen of the books, so I feel we did our part. However, during a game, the books stay on the shelves and we mostly use tablet apps, including hero lab.

It is simply faster to do searchs and find rules with an electronic app and leaves more time for the game itself.

I think that if I was playing PFS, I`d simply bring the receipts for all the books I own, so they know I am "Legit" as far as the cash grab goes, and then use the electronic app because I could not be bothered to bring a library with me everytime and search through a dozen paperback book everytime a question arise.

Hero Lab beats hands written characters any day.

My humble opinion is that a good GM should have all the books he needs to GM and speak with his players prior to the game.

As far as PFS is concerned, I`m not a fan, and to not ignore the elephant in the room I would dare say it: It`s purely to push sales in the player`s throat rather than any other so called rules.