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Thank you all for the new suggestions.

I don´t know if my DM will allow Traits and max level of the campaign is open for the moment, some of our previous campaigns ended at level 12, other at 30 (i personal like it to stick on an loved character, but the 3.x epic rules are even worser then the AD&D 2.0 ones and they doesn´t really fit Pathfinder well), so... i am don´t plan behind 12, because 12 is a save bet.

I think i will give the build from Zeb a chance, looks solid enough to don´t die in the next combat.

Thank you very much for your answer.

I think i try sticking with manly Rogue with a little step in Fighter. Fighter hurts the skill monkey but helps with the feats (and allow me to wear medium armor if i think i don´t need Evasion). I will targeting for the two-weapon feinting line, which should help for the Enemies we encounter (with only a Sorcerer and Rogue PC i disbelieve that our DM will throw alot of adamantit Golems or Dragons after us).

For now i ask my DM if 4Rouge/1 Fighter is okay, with Rogue 10/Fighter 2 in mind as medicore aim for the characterlevel 12, giving improved Uncanny dodge at level 10 and crippling strike at 12 (maybe 15R/5F at the end or 17R/3F with Weapoinmaster, but i don´t know if i will stick with one weapon)

Hello everyone,

first of all i want to apologize, my english ist bad and i know it, but i try my best.

Long story short: we run a 3.5 campaign loosely based on the Dragon Age Universe. Meaning many stealthy/roguish baddys (Dark Spawn), great hate for magic-users of all kind and hard time getting magic items byside Armor/Weapons.

Our Character are: DM-PC Ranger (got killed last time we played), Soccerer, Paladin, "Magus" (Duskblade or hexblade, mix them always up), Bard and a Rogue (me).
Paladin and (Hex?Dusk?)Blade player can no longer play because of RL issues, bard´s player simply loses interest, what´s leave the sorcerer and my rogue + DM-character (always some kind of Warrior (Fighter, Ranger) to help in combat if it going to tough because of bad rolls but never have deus-ex-machine spells or class abilities to out-shine the PCs).

Now we decide to keep playing but switch to Pathfinder, re-create the character with 25 Point buy (to compensate the small groupe) but try/want to keep the original concepts of the charaters (instead of start a new campaign).
We just have the Corerule Book, but the GM allowed mostly all what is on http://www.d20pfsrd.com/ so i think APG and UC are also okay.

So far (thanks for keeping reading).
My character is (was) a pure rogue, mostly trapfinding skillmonkey, Half-Elf in race, really bad in combat (optimized Blade + pala was kicking butts like nothing) but uses two daggers (TWF) if flanking and SA was possible, but TWF was mostly for style.
Now i need to find a way to 1) don´t sell the concept, 2) increase party support, espacially damage-wise, 3)keep trapfinding on the table (DM loves traps, locked doors and secret chambers).

Things i want to keep/can´t change:
1) Trapfinding
2) race (Half-Elf)
3) the stealthy, acrobatig part of the character
4) skill monkey
5) level 5.

Things i may keep/had to take in mind:
1) low str. roll was a mess, point-buying could fix this but it would feel wrong to me change a Str of 8 to 20 or so, a slight increase may be okay. The agil weapon enchantment may also help here.
2) SA and TWF. nice when Full-attack flanking, but in such a small group it´s hard to archiev. Because of the many sneaky Monsters range combat often is not the i win, because by default most attackers try to ambush us instead of waiting in Plain sigh to get killed. so most combats already starts in melee or 1 round before we get forced in melee. Dervish Dance may be an option, but i don´t see this character using a THW, that´s would totally break the consistency for me.
3) Uncanny dodge. Nice to have with so much rogues around.
4) the Face. Becoming the face of the group was not my intention as i create this character as skillmonkey (rolled high Dex, Int and Cha, but low str, con and Wis), but nether the bard or paladin shows intrest in taking this part (bard was more a Rogue-Mage-with-some-buffs and the paladin was busy with smite evil or smite sorcerer (even he was not evil), so my character invest some points in diplomacy).

i have read some of the guides and the class description, but i don´t really came along with a solution. Posible concepts i had in mind:

1) singleclass Rogue, TWF anf TW-feinting to deliver SA. Squishy, feat heavy, Rogue Talents almost completly consumed to archiev this route.
2) 3 Ranger(Trapper) for Trapfinding, Fav Enemy + Terrain, rest Ninja, maybe 2 dips in Shadowdancer (Evasion + perma Darkvision). Gets Invible Blade at level 13, needs flanking otherwise.
3) Rogue/Shadowdancer. mobil, but less damage even if HiPS allowed to use like invisibility, needs flanking.
4) singleclass Bard(Archaeologist). I don´t see how this class deals damage (no offense, i just don´t get it). Can´t buff, has trapfing and some RT and full bard spell list.
5) Rogue 1, ranger rest. No uncanny dodge, best HD of all, not so good damage with keeping low str concept (agil weapon may help but limit to finess weapons), got flanking buddy (animal), but only 1D6 SA.

I am sure ther is a lot i simple hasn´t seen, so does anyone has adives for my (maybe an completly different concept/class) how i can play a low str, half skill monkey half damage dealer to support the remainig party best without sacrificing all what define my characer rp-wise?