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My wife and I are going to be playing in a new Pathfinder campaign soon. She’s playing a rogue who will be fighting with two daggers while I will be playing a combat oriented alchemist. We are starting making our characters (at level 2) and I decided to be a vivisectionist with feral mutagen and I realized that not only do I have 3 attacks to her 2, but mine do quite a bit more damage, and I also have a sneak attack just like hers, which I will get on three attacks when we can flank enemies. On top of that, I get other cool powers too like formulae. I can even do stealth, because I took a trait to give it to me as a class skill, though I’m not as good at it as her.

So I feel like I do her thing better than she does, plus a lot of other cool stuff. That being the case, I think I’ve decided not to be a vivisectionist so that at least she can have sneak attacks all to herself. Is there something I’m missing here or does a vivisectionist alchemist cut too much into the rogue’s role with sneak attacks?

I am about to play a Pathfinder game and I am playing a Stonelord Paladin archetype and my wife is going to be a Skald. Well, the Skald has Raging Song and in a few levels, I will have Defensive Stance and these two powers don't stack. It makes me kind of sad for two of our most useful powers to be mutually exclusive, at least as far as my character goes.

Is there any advice anybody can give as to how to play this - either from a character design perspective or tactics to use that will allow me to get the most out of Defensive Stance and Raging Song?

I'm starting a new campaign as a level 1 Stonelord Dwarf paladin. My attributes are as follows:

Str 18
Dex 10
Con 16
Int 13
Wis 10
Cha 12

I was hoping to try to maximize my damage output while still being the party's main tank. There is a Swashbuckler in the party and I was hoping that he wouldn't absolutely outshine me in terms of damage.

I was thinking that a sword and shield would be thematically appropriate, but I haven't entirely decided on a fighting style yet. The GM is letting me essentially have a free exotic weapon proficiency, so that would factor in - maybe shield and falcata?

Anyway, does anybody have ideas for how to build this character to be a competitive damage dealer?

I was thinking about WoD and it occurred to me that it might be interesting to run a medieval or fantasy style game with major WoD elements with Pathfinder. Including vampire or werewolf PC's, using rules from the Bestiary for those kinds of creatures and modeling Clans or Tribes with the creature's class. I thought that the d20 system may actually be more thematic in depicting these sorts of supernatural creatures than grittier lethal d10.

Has anybody ever tried or done anything like this?