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What if I want to do the warpriest build but as a human? Also don’t want to dump my strength into the pits? It should be viable from 1st level as well. I noticed that a 1st level Ranger character that I made was packing over 69 pounds of gear. Very close to being a medium load. If your strength is 16. Eight strength is way less.

One thing I noticed early on when I started playing PFS is that Merisiel (the iconic rogue) starts with a 14 Str. I wondered why until I calculated the weight of her gear, and realized she needed that Str to remain at a light load. She doesn't have an egregious amount of equipment, either; apart from her 10 daggers, it's a pretty typical inventory for a rogue. The lesson: don't tank Str, even on a Dex build, if you want to be able carry anything useful without being encumbered.

My own dagger specialist was a Pharasman warpriest, who had all three Weapon of the Faithful feats by 5th level. Sadly, I didn't get to play her much after that, due to 2E eclipsing interest in 1E in our local group.

There's all sorts of ways to 'play against type' like this. A Dhampir Cleric of Pharasma, half-undead cleric of the god of hating undead. A Skinwalker Cleric of Abadar, pushing down their feral instincts to work in a bank and worship the god of cities. A Gnome that worships a traditionally elven god like Yuelral, or a Halfling that lives in Highhelm and worships a traditionally dwarven god like Magrim.

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But I'd love to see some focus on Druidism among the orcs, even if the 1e orc stats are dire. (Something like +2 Str, +2 Wis (representing both being mule-headedly stubborn, and possessed of more primal instincts and awareness) and -2 Int, giving them the same net +2 of most other PC races, would be cool, IMO.)

One of my PFS1 characters is a dhampir warpriest of Pharasma. She was found and raised by Pharasmin priests, who trained her to fight the kinds of monsters responsible for her own existence.

Back in my D&D 3E days, I played a half-orc whose 1st level was barbarian, then he multiclassed into druid. His backstory was that after being wounded in battle, a druid found him and nursed him back to health. Being less bloodthirsty than most of his kin, he stayed with the druid to learn his ways.