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Just got started playing in RotRL, and rolled up a anti-giant spec'ed Nodachi Weapons Master. Unfortunately, this PC was created as a roll-playing rather than role-playing exercise and I never could quite find the character personality hook I could latch on to, which troubled me.

I took Cayden as his deity just because the everyman aspect appealed to me. During session none, I took Norah's dare at the Hagfish and rolled a 20 on the Fort save and somewhere along the way decided that playing a warrior-priest of Cayden would be fairly fun.

The quandary I face is that I am an odd duck in that I absolutely am fixated on min/maxed power-gamer builds, /but/ they absolutely have to have heavy role-playing flavor. I'd rather play a Lv 1 Commoner in a Lv. 20 environment than play a perfectly theory-crafted set of stats with no rp hooks.

I've heard that if you play a tank or dps and are not playing Warpriest, that yo uare doing it wrong, and I admit looking at the stats it's pretty sweet. However, one of the few hooks I have right now is how unusual the Nodachi and its capabilities are in RotRL's and I don't want to replace that with the Warpriest's generic weapon stats. Plus, my Wis is pretty average anyway.

Does anyone have any ideas about how I can add in the holy warrior aspect?

-MaxGravity

Can the various nobility traits, such as those from the KM AP, be substituted for the Noble Scion/Skill Focus feat prereq. ?

If Trickster is supposed to be the path for skill monkeys, what about making this a choice for your 1st tier ability? That would go along ways towards accommodating less combat-focused characters.

I really like the direction MA is taking, but I feel that one path is missing, that of the expert that has so throughly mastered their field that they are able to achieve legendary results. Whether it's the swordsman from Shanara that was able to slay a beast only killable by magic or a fast talking bard who's able to trade a paperclip for an entire kingdom, there is something undeniably cool about these types of characters.

Anyone have a thought on this?

Hi,

New to PF, and therefore know very few of the details about Golarion. I was curious if anyone knows if the knight on the back cover of the core book is representative of a certain order/faction or just random artwork?

thanks,

-MaxGrav