I have a character concept for a half-Orc foppish nobleman. A dandy. The goal would be to have him fight with either a single rapier, or if it's just way to gimped, a rapier/main gauche pair.
Back story is he is the son of a noble house raised in seclusion because of his mixed heritage. He has been raised as an aristocratic, snobbish dandy. Dedicated to fine dress, elegant conversation and the indulgences of life only wealth can offer. Sheltered from the outside world he is very naive. He doesn't understand why the poor choose to live the way they do. While he feels he is a charming and friendly sort he often comes off as one of the pampered elite looking down his nose at "the common folk".
While his traits and upbringing are steadfastly ingrained into his behavior, as he becomes more and more exposed to the outside world he begins to feel for the plight of the less fortunate - the working class (e.g. merchants, laborers, businessmen). He feels for them, for their lack of culture and upbringing and in turn decides to take on a secret life helping those "in need".
Because of the embarassment such exploits would bring to his family if discovered ("associating with commoners") he needs to sneak around to keep his secret. I was thinking maybe a rogue/duelist type build, but I felt story wise he wouldn't feel it dignified to stab someone in the back so I don't know how I would resolve that with getting sneak attack damage. I do like the idea of tactics like Spring Attack, but since I traditionally play pole arm wielding battle field control types, I'm kind of in unfamiliar waters here.
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Your character resembles Zorro.
I have a half-Orc rogue who is taking two levels of Lore Warden, a fighter archetype. Lore Wardens get Combat Expertise as a bonus feat. She will then take Improved Feint. After first successfully feinting and then hitting, she can use her sneak attack dice. You get sneak attack dice for either flanking or hitting someone who is denied a Dexterity bonus (which is the result of a successful feint).
My PC has Dervish Dance, which allows the use of a scimitar with Weapon Finesse, bases damage on DEX rather than STR and can be used by a Duelist.
thanks,
Kodger
There a weapon enchantment that alouds DEX instead STR on finesseable weapons for a +1 in the Pathfinder Society Field Guide (I think thats the name of the book). Also, the Archelogist maybe what you ar looking for if you don't mind having spells.
Humbly,
Yawar
It looks like you do not want him to have actual high charisma. I would have suggested bard specializing in singing operas and head toward a duelist feel.
Rogue works the appearance of the unwillingness to enter combat but willing to strike at the opportune moment. Sure gutting someone might be undignified but striking quickly and secretly fits.
The other option is oracle with the wasting curse. Perhaps his patron is one of his only friends as the character sees more and more or the world. The patron is pushing him toward this concern for others.
I have a similar character known as the Ochre Orc. The class is ninja, with the serial numbers filed off. He disappears in a puff of smoke and reappears whenever the people need him most!0
It gives you the disguise and bluff as class skills, a reason to have a decent charisma. Two weapon fighting almost requires an extra source of damage like sneak attacking to work, and the swift action invisibility is the way to get that. Don't think of yourself as a spellcaster, just think of yourself as that damned good.
If you can't talk your dm into trading katana for rapier, just take a level of fighter.
So I was introduced at the tail end of our session last night, so not much has occurred and I'm still finalizing his build. I actually went full orc instead of half orc. This is a small family non-optimized group, so the fact that orc is almost the completely worst race for this doesn't matter.
Dressed in his fancy clothes with his neatly groomed hair and polished white tusks all while sporting a gentleman's sword cane, Beaumont Blakeney Dillicapp III is dressed to impress.
I'm working through the plethora of feat/talent/skill options available.
Gnomezrule is right, his Charisma is actually planned to be pretty low. He believes he is being a real gentleman, but his naivety prevents him from realizing how condescending he comes across. The group actually has a gnome bard so I was trying to go a different direction to prevent too much overlap.
YawarFiesta, you are right it's the PFS Field Guide. The enchantment is called Agile. Beau's sword cane is an Agile-Keen Dueling(FG) Sword Cane. The GM didn't like that the sword cane had a 19-20/2x crit range when it is basically a rapier so he made it 18-20/2x which means it's now effectively a 15-20/2x with DEX to damage.
I am pictureing Howard Wolowitz from Big Bang. He thinks he is smoth but it comes out creepy.
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I was thinking, more along the lines of Prince Charming from Into the Woods (Musical) "I was raised to be charming, not sincere."
or Kenneth Branagh's depiction of Gilderoy Lockhart in the Harry Potter movie.
Ahhh this fits better...
There is also a feat called Noble Scion that can only be taken at 1st level that you might be interested in. It's in the ISWG.
Thanks I'll check it out.
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I was thinking, more along the lines of Prince Charming from Into the Woods (Musical) "I was raised to be charming, not sincere."
or Kenneth Branagh's depiction of Gilderoy Lockhart in the Harry Potter movie.
I get what you are saying we are thinking the same thing. He believes he is charming is trying to be charming but it comes off grating, and annoying.
Ok, yep, we are thinking the same thing. It would be more in keeping with that theme to have lower Wisdom and Charisma. Now to just figure out the best approach for a build. I'm off to research some more...