Warrior Mage

[Calad]

I am trying to do a conversion from rolemaster to pathfinder with my character and I just don't seem to get it work. So I decided to turn to you for brighter ideas.

The character was warrior mage in rolemaster, with decent skill with bow and sword, used leather/chain armor, had a very good strength, agility and presence. Psyhical appereance was impressive with 200lbs and 6'10" tall. Used mainly bolts/buffs in fights and also had a few utily spells.

The stats converted to pathfinder would propably look something like this,

STR 20
CON 16
DEX 17
INT 13
CHA 20
WIS 13

I would propably be allowed to change the Cha and INT stats around (depending on the class),I also have extra +2 to throw around if needed (yes the stats are high, I wouldn't mind playing with lower stats but thats what the conversion table said).

I really hate playing "one trick pony" type of characters (thats why I chose the WM in the first place), like to sometime socialise alot in games and offcourse I would like to carry my own weight in battlefield.

Now I have looked the sor|wiz/fighter/EK builds, different Magus builds and bard builds, also pure sor/wiz but I simply don't know which would work best for my kind of gameplay. Don't need to be best in anything and prefer versatility over optimization.

Also since I have zero experience on pathfinder (have played a bit of 3.5 though) it's hard to imagine how the character would endup being after few years of playing (if I manage to stay alive so long). The race is fixed as Half-Elf and starting level is 6 and we propably be playing to the 20th level. The rules are pretty much the Core rules and Ultimate magic and propably combat too.

So can you help the man out or is my guest doomed?

[Ciaran Barnes]

Your stats are incredibly high. That's not a holdup to your question, I'm just saying.

You easily accomplish what you want with multiclassing into wizard or sorcerer. Wearing armor of course would ruin you ability to cast spells consistently though.

If you are allowed to swap int and cha then do so and play a Magus. That is the easiest solution and the one I would choose.

[Deadmanwalking]

Magus and Bard both work fine for what you want (with the Magus better at combat and blasting and the Bard at everything else and buffing). Pick one and go for it.

[submit2me]

I've been playing a Fighter/Sorcerer/Dragon Disciple for over a year now and I love it. I have decent spells, a breath weapon, and if I feel like it, I can slap on mirror images and go to town with my great sword. The spell progression is stunted, but you get a lot of other cool bonuses to make up for it. Grab robes of arcane heritage asap for increased bloodline powers. At 6th level, you could take your 1st level of Dragon Disciple. Even if you don't want Dragon Disciple powers, you could easily go Eldritch Knight the rest of the way, but then you lose out on increasing your bloodline powers.

P.S. My character is also a half-elf. I chose to use my free skill focus for intimidate.