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I am dming a game for some buddies and invited my brother to join. I asked him what sort of character he would want to play and he said he would want to use a reverse blade katana like Rurouni Kenshin and not want to deal leathal damage to people, due to his past. He has never played any tabletop before, however he vaguely knows some of the rules.

What would you think would be the best fit for this style of character, and what suggestions do you have to ensure he has fun with this choice? I have a few ideas, but I have a tendency to min/max characters, so I would like some other input.

I created a witch for our pathfinder campaign. He is going to be a support character for the most part. So the idea is to cast a lot of hexes on enemies and cackle. However I tried to use misfortune and then move while using cackle. My DM is saying that I can only use cackle or move. Is that a good call? I understand that whether it is by the book and he doesn't like it, then it's his choice anyways. I just want to know for a future campaign with a different DM.

I am planning on making a witch with the plague patron(Plague: 2nd—detect undead, 4th—command undead, 6th—contagion, 8th—animate dead, 10th—giant vermin, 12th—create undead, 14th—control undead, 16th—create greater undead, 18th—energy drain.), but I don't understand how these spells work (i.e. how many undead total I can have, using all of my abilities). I have read a few guides but they all say that plague is a terrible patron because you can't control the undead, but isn't that what command/control undead does?

I have a cool concept for the character rp wise, but I have never made a character like this or a spellcaster. Does having undead servants require me to have an evil alignment?