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Take a Paladin.
Add Oath of Charity, +50% lay on hands for others, -50% for you, can swap out mercies daily (8th level).
And then the Oath of Loyalty. Swift action, declare loyal oath, target gains your Charisma mod as a Sacred Bonus to Armor Class and Saves.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a combat medic in the house!
How about a Quinngong Sensi monk? I love that idea for a class and could see if it being a great 5th or 6th party member. He could do a little bit of everything.
I think you can choose a variety of classes to fit a variety of concepts; instead you could start by thinking in terms of the different factions and their goals.
For instance, to build off of Alexandar, you could make a Paladin of the Silver Crusade faction that originally hails from Mendev. He could be a noble and selfless soul, but also one that has grown sick of fighting demons and wishes to do something more constructive/creative (even if it is recover lost artifacts).
Or if you play a monk, as Gerald suggests, you could try to adhere to one of the monastic traditions - perhaps playing a Jalmeray monk associated with the Osiriani who seeks deeper mastery of the elements or magic.
I would dig into the Inner Sea Campaign Guide for inspiration, or the pathfinder wiki
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Take a Paladin.
Add Oath of Charity, +50% lay on hands for others, -50% for you, can swap out mercies daily (8th level).
And then the Oath of Loyalty. Swift action, declare loyal oath, target gains your Charisma mod as a Sacred Bonus to Armor Class and Saves.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a combat medic in the house!
Add Tower Shield Proficiency and he's a shield-bearer.
...that would be a really boring character to play IMO.
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Put some thought into why the character has become what they have become. Think about race and class and how they fit together. For example, my half elf summoner is a summoner because growing up at a slower rate than her human peers made it hard for her to keep friends. Therefore she bonded with her eidolon.
Another exercise would be to think about a formative experience. A good way to do that is to pick up a module and relate that character in that story. Another character I have was in the audience in Among the Living and saw her brother killed. I've thought of but not made a character who is the 17 year Junia (the 12 year old girl rescued in Black Waters) with the theory something spoke to her while she was unconsious and now she's an oracle, witch, or sorceress.
Other ideas---
Come up with some mannerisms. For example, my Alchemist is always trying to find a husband for his sisters. He asks other PCs and NPCs if they will volunteer. Maybe your character was raised by nuns and carries their indoctrination on their sleeve. Make your tiefling a girly girl who paints her armor pink.
Don't play the class you say you are. For example: A 'cleric' of Razimer who is actually a Bard.
Look at your stats and think about how this has shaped them. If your dwarf has a 5 charisma, decide what that means. In my case, I decided it was a patchy beard, a body odor problem, and a meek personality. By the same token, you can have your 18 Dex character sit down doing the splits.
Hope that helps.
Add Tower Shield Proficiency and he's a shield-bearer.
...that would be a really boring character to play IMO.
Eh, you can make anything work really if you put some effort into it. People who play a true martyr, to the hilt, both make a memorable character and really annoy the rest of the table in my experience. Hardly boring
One of my PFS characters is a really passive, accepting, and selfless soul (charisma 5 monk). He is also, in the language of certain communities, a Bottom. He will jump in the way of anything for a superior (which is everyone), grovels at the feet of those who are sufficiently beautiful or intelligent, and submit to (almost) and order. He's fun at parties. The monk also does non-lethal damage whenever possible, so that he can tie up foes and take them back to cheliax for a proper judgment by his Mistress. Like Kerney said, it's all about the mannerisms.
I personally think that there is a lot of stuff that is interesting in the new ARG, as well as the APG. Some ideas:
- Andoren aligned elven plant druid from the Kyonin forest (awkward, hauty and not fit in anywhere; plus you have a tree tailing you everywhere).
- gnomish saboteur (alchemist) from Cheliax (where the gnomes have a strong tradition of alchemy).
- human cross-blooded imperious/destined sorcerer with the seeker archetype, from Taldor certain of their own destiny and searching for the lost, glorious artifacts of the old empire.
- half-orc barbarian with the elemental totems who was raised by ifrits in the Qadiran desert.
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I am currently considering a LN Human Inquisitor of Asmodeus with the deceitful and alertness feats. He would use the sub-domain of Devils, and have the Hell's Corruption domain power.
With the disguise self spell and a skill rank in disguise, combined with the Hell's Corruption power, I would use him as an infiltrator.
Through corruption, he would bluff his way through the enemy lines.
Through alertness and stern gaze, he would be a good lie detector.
I haven't figured out the whole background, but he would be sent by Cheliax to clean up the mess a relative made.
That offers some good roleplay I believe.
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Concrete Ideas--
Oracle with blindness curse and the wisdom as a dump stat. While he's primarilly a spell caster, when he uses a weapon he uses a crossbow, which he points at people, (loaded) constantly. His rational is that 'a truely great warrior can defeat his enemies before he can see them.' Do a oracle as 1 level dip and make him a gunslinger would be better.
'Paladin' of a Non Paladin using god. The actual class would be inqisitor or ranger probably.
Swashbuckler (Rogue or Ninja/Fighter) If you have the kitsume boon, this would be a cool use of it.
A tiefling who really wants to be good but whose instincts get in the way. Some good characters to model this on is Marvel's Magik or Reki from the anime Haibane Renmei.
John Audoban, or rather someone who has Craft:painting as his 'real' profession. His primary reason for adventuring is to find something cool to paint. Class could be anything.
Summoner who thinks of their Eidolan as a family member i.e. child, sibling, spouse.
Low int 'Retarded' sorcerer w/familar (arcane bloodline). Familar orders sorcerer around because they are smarter than the character. This could be done in either a kind or bullying way. Picture a raven who bites his master when he doesn't behave. Half orc or tiefling varient would be good in this role.
Test subject who could be an alchemist, sorcerer, oracle, barbarian or whatever. Regardless, they became who they are because someone used them as a test subject, maybe themselves (Yes Doctor Banner, I mean you).
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Low int 'Retarded' sorcerer w/familar (arcane bloodline). Familar orders sorcerer around because they are smarter than the character. This could be done in either a kind or bullying way. Picture a raven who bites his master when he doesn't behave. Half orc or tiefling varient would be good in this role.
Ha! My halfling witch in RotRL had this dynamic with his raven Brooks - Brooks was ultimately as memorable as the witch. Not that the witch was low-int - Brooks was just better at snappy comebacks, and mean enough to say them. The halfling would then have to apologize for his familiar's behavior.
Some of my favorite characters are your flawed ones - the halfling barbarian with the Napoleon complex; the gnome Oracle/Bard (going Pathfinder Chronicler) who hobbles about on his quarterstaff but always has an answer for any problem; or the brash, loud-mouthed Taldan Samurai ("The katana's a fine weapon, once you get it out of the hands of those limp-wristed Tien!").
Basically, just come up with a character that you are going to have fun playing, then find the stats to match. Everything else should fall into place.
I find my favorite characters for role-playing usually come about when I come up with mechanics first, then look for ways to explain them. For instance, I decided I wanted a cleric with the Caves subdomain so I could cast create pit. That pretty much meant that I had to worship Torag, but I didn't want to play a Dwarf, so now I have an Aasimar cleric who was raised by Dwarves, has maxed out ranks in Knowledge (engineering), and fights with a shovel.
a musketmaster/ranger big game hunter would be BULLY!
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I am currently considering a LN Human Inquisitor of Asmodeus with the deceitful and alertness feats. He would use the sub-domain of Devils, and have the Hell's Corruption domain power.
With the disguise self spell and a skill rank in disguise, combined with the Hell's Corruption power, I would use him as an infiltrator.
Through corruption, he would bluff his way through the enemy lines.
Through alertness and stern gaze, he would be a good lie detector.I haven't figured out the whole background, but he would be sent by Cheliax to clean up the mess a relative made.
That offers some good roleplay I believe.
Unfortunately, this one doesn't work. You have to be the same alignment as your deity to get any alignment based domain, or any subdomain of it, so you can't take the Devil subdomain in PFS, because you can't be evil.
Some great ideas in this thread.
My most recent creation is a gnome bard using the Prankster archetype from the Advanced Race Guide. He'll use Perform (Comedy) with Versatile Performance to demoralize enemies, along with his Mock Bardic Performance. Both combined can give an enemy -4 to hit in combat, and it's all accomplished by insulting the enemy! Throw in the Blistering Invective spell, and he can demoralize large groups at once.
Perform (Comedy) is also his day job (he's a stand up philosopher), so this guy's going to be my first PC that actually gets good money from his day job rolls. I've played him once so far, at level 1, and he got 75 gp when I rolled a natural 20 for his day job roll.
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Devil is also a subdomain of the Law domain, so a LN character would match that aspect of Asmodeus's alignment(LE).I am currently considering a LN Human Inquisitor of Asmodeus with the deceitful and alertness feats. He would use the sub-domain of Devils, and have the Hell's Corruption domain power.
With the disguise self spell and a skill rank in disguise, combined with the Hell's Corruption power, I would use him as an infiltrator.
Through corruption, he would bluff his way through the enemy lines.
Through alertness and stern gaze, he would be a good lie detector.I haven't figured out the whole background, but he would be sent by Cheliax to clean up the mess a relative made.
That offers some good roleplay I believe.
Unfortunately, this one doesn't work. You have to be the same alignment as your deity to get any alignment based domain, or any subdomain of it, so you can't take the Devil subdomain in PFS, because you can't be evil.
You're right. I completely missed that. Actually, it kind of surprises me. But I guess this character idea is legal, after all.
Really, you can play pretty much any class and race and come up with an interesting back story.
I tend to come up with mechanics first and then fit the story around it. It's easy enough to come up with anything like that.
Although, I did have this idea for a mounted summoner where his eidolon was a chair...