This is my first post after a long time of lurking, so apologies in advance.
I’m about to play in a half combat, half social custom campaign set in Wuxia-Fantasy China, so the restrictions on classes and races are: “Make it Ancient Chinese flavoured, and be a human. All magic casting has somatic components that involve Kung-fu techniques, and everyone starts at level 3 with 3000 gold and 20-point buy.”
Naturally, the first thing that went through my head was, “Heavenly Dragon Fist,” so something like dragon style and something related to either the worship of the heavenly dragons (alignment and specific deity worship is a jumbled, waived away mess, apparently...)
So, I’m wanting to build a Strength and Charisma focused, punch-enemies martial artist (not necessarily the monk archetype) who has a dragon theme about him and can talk his way through a multitude of situations, both through intimidation and diplomacy. I was thinking about feats like Intimidating Prowess and Noble Scion of War (Noble Scion fits the character’s backstory, War is just a helpful bonus) would be good to start out with.
As for classes, maybe a few levels of Paladin for Divine Grace, maybe a Scaled fist monk for AC and unarmed damage, or even a Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer for the Imperial Dragon/intimidation theme (with magical knack helping with CL, of course,) maybe even a level of all three, since it fits thematically. As a human, I’d take the Draconic Heritage variant trait, just to be even more dragon-themed.
Thing is, is that I’m utterly tangled up with all the options out there, be it level dips, spells or no spells (we have no full casters, so spell casting backup would be nice, at the least) etc. It’s a bad case of Choice Paralysis, so I’d like for some advice from people with more experience in pathfinder than me about a build that would work out.
As for other players in the campaign, there’s a “Throw stuff at enemies” Magus, a “stab everyone” Ninja, and two different types of monk, one of whom is a martial artist.
Tl;dr: Advice for making a Charismatic, Kung-fu Dragon-themed character requested, sorry for this jumbled mess of a first post.