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I have a tank fighter that I am looking to be able to make him actually tank in an MMO sense, rather than the standard "hope they attack you" that many 'tank' fighters go with. To that end I want to run about the battlefield blocking attacks against recalcitrant allies not smart enough to believe me when I tell them to stay adjacent to me.

My question is do the various ideas I have for him work in concert or do they conflict in some fashion? Can Style Mastery allow me to use both Mobile Fortress Style and Vanguard Style together? If I use a fauchard with Shield Brace how does that interact with Combat Patrol/Stand Still/Vanguard Style?

In my neverending quest to do interesting things in a system dedicated to being as boring as possible, am looking to make a character who can talk to anyone he meets in PFS. What are all the ways I can do this? Comprehend languages with UMD is not my preferred technique, are there items that will let me do this without a roll?

There are a zillion feats available to enhance Stunning Fist, and a similar number of abilities one can swap it out for. Can one take a feat like Stunning Fist Adept to enhance the DC of say, the knock-prone ability of Punishing Kick?

Also, am I hallucinating when I remember a feat that gives additional uses of Stunning Fist per day? Did the 90s Sinbad genie make it vanish or something?

Is there a list of "weapon qualities that can be applied to Unarmed Attacks"? Ultimate Equipment has a table that is supposed to detail this in reference to the AMF, but the chart seems to say that almost any melee weapon quality can do so, excepting ones like Keen that require slashing. Is there a footnote I am missing?

How can you make a tower shield with a higher max dex bonus? Because RAW is dumb I understand you can't make them out of mithral despite the fact that there are several mithral tower shields in various books. What other materials can you use instead? Noqual and Singing Steel seem to be usable, albeit at a cool 7000 gold for either of them. Non-magical Noqual is of course cheaper but lets assume magic is necessary.

Vanguard Hustle is a fairly neat ability with a massive seven-feat requirement. Bad enough, but when you consider three of these are blatant feat taxes it gets pretty awful. Especially when you consider Saving Shield is an objectively inferior version of Bodyguard and both are required. What gives?

Generally when an archetype replaces an ability it, well, does something. When the Armor Master archetype replaces Weapon Training 1 it gives a small amount of DR and when it replaces Armor Mastery is gives a quite substantial amount of DR, quadruple in fact. But when it replaces Weapon Training 3 it does absolutely nothing. Is this an oversight or typo? Should it perhaps provide a moderate amount of DR at level 13, perhaps double the initial amount?

Is a fighter able to select more than one Advanced Weapon or Armor Training option? The description of Armor Specialization would seem to imply that they can, but the fact that each ability scales would seem to imply not.

In the case of say, Armored Confidence and Armored Juggernaut, which case is correct:
1. Select Confidence at 7th, Juggernaut at 11th, get full 11th level bonuses for both.
2. Select Confidence at 7th, Juggernaut at 11th, get only 7th level bonuses for both.
3. Can only select one at 7th, which scales according to the description.

If #1, it would be a nice way to buff the power of the fighter at the higher levels where it needs it when compared to casters and zany basic classes from the various power bloat books that have come out in the years since Core.