| Wolfgarde |
Hey guys! So I'm new to playing pathfinder (I've only played D&D 5e), and made a gnome paladin during the first session of a pathfinder Kingsmaker campaign. I originally planned on making a cleric, but changed my plan at the last minute once I learned we didn't have a tank. I took the "sword Scion" trait, and made it so my character wanted to learn to be an aldori sword fighter as his background. I made the mistake of trying to build my character as a dex fighter (with 12 str and 16 dex). I took Weapon Finesse as my first feat.
We played our first two sessions and I realized I messed up. We are level 1 and my character has these problems:
- he's slow - with a movement of 20 ft, it takes me two moves to keep up with my fast teammates. So I'm not there to protect them
- he does no damage - the combination of being small, and not realizing the aldori dueling sword applies to weapon finesse only if you have proficiency in the dueling sword means I do no damage
- he's not a threat - I learned quickly that the way to tank in pathfinder is to be a threat. My character is a 3 ft gnome who barely does damage and is slow and late to battle, so enemies always attack the rest of the party.
I talked to the DM, who told me he's let me change the class archetype of my character, but not the stats or the class. I want to make this character work with the original idea I had. I've thought of making my character a holy Tactician, but I'm still having trouble with making my character a viable tank. Do you guys have any suggestions on how to do that for my character without having to just dump him?