Settling on an alignment can be tricky, but I find it helps to remind yourself that, unless you're a paladin or someone equally extreme, most alignments are just a tendency. Not all evil characters must somehow abstain from doing good, and not all good characters are incapable of a little evil every now and then. People are complex - way too complex to fit perfectly within a mere 9 different alignments.
I think chaotic neutral sounds pretty fair for your character. Perhaps neutral (as in neutral-neutral) if you see him as more dedicated and persistent than your average chaotic character, who tend to be a fickle sort.
If you find that your portrayal starts to change during play, as you settle into the character, then you can always talk to your GM about changing alignments.
I like the concept, by the way! Sounds like it'll be fun to play. As someone who mostly GMs, I love it when players come up with stuff like this.
Try rogue/ lore warden/ duelist with the crane style feats. Possibly MoMS or unarmed fighter. Honestly look at a duelist guide and pick the path that most suits you. I am partial to rog4/ magus 4/ duelist x.
I'm with rangerjeff on your characters alignment. From your description he strikes me as more Neutral Good. Of course, that is assuming he cares about innocent people other than just his friends and allies. If he is less concerned with helping others outside his group, Neutral would probably work. I say this since your character clearly is interested in following protocol when appropriate, but has no qualms to step outside it when it starts to fail him. Most chaotic characters would not worry about honor or anything of the sort unless they felt they had to in order to survive or reach their goal while most lawful characters would be less willing to act in a dishonorable way (to them, at least) even when the going got tough. The kind of flexibility you describe sounds neutral on Law-Chaos.
Magus 4 gives you some great options for all kinds of situations, and access to alot of great wands and scrolls you will want to be extra rougey!
Hello all! I am new to Pathfinder & I am currently making my first character whom I selected will be a Rogue. One of the issues I am having with him is finding out what alignment he falls into.
Here's some handy alignment charts to help you decide.
If you still can't decide, write down Batman and you're good to go.
On second (or third) thought, do rogue 4, using your rogue tricks to at least pick up combat feat, then fighter (lore warden or weapon master) 3, then duelist. Magus 4 is fun, but I believe your character would be focusing on martial superiority. The loss of 2 BaB plus -2 from fighting defensively with crane style, is a bit too significant for a martial focused character. Lore warden will get you some skills and open the door for some maneuvers, but weapon master gives you the most bang for your buck with weapon training at 3. You will want to hit duelist as soon as possible which will be lvl 8 if you plan on taking even 1 lvl of rogue, so you won't hit lvl 5 as a fighter to pick up weapon training. Weapon master gets you the most important ability early enough for it to count, and gloves of dueling will drive that bonus home!
Rogue 4 only puts him behind 1 point of BaB, and gives him the skill acces he wants. And rogue talents can buy needed feats.
Hm I thought Two-Weapon Fighting helps balance the weaker BAB. In any case I prefer more Role Playing rather than Roll Playing and the other classes doesn't give off the vibe I desire.
Of course I don't want to be useless either so are rogues really that bad? :(
Yes and no. Rogue dip to 4 isn't bad at all, but straight rogue loses power faster than a fish net loses water. TWF doesn't off set poor BaB, it makes it worse! However, everyone thinks rogues should TWF to get the most of SA. I disagree, but I am probably, almost certainly wrong. A 4 lvl dip is perfect for a RP choice for duelist as long as you back it with a full BaB class, or magus 4 for some tricky and versatile character options (but not optimized).
Your background wants the highest BaB possible to truly shine as the quintessential duelist, but as I said, the 1 BaB loss is more than acceptable to get the RP flair you are looking for.
If they took rogue and duelist and combined them into a base class (not the 3.5 swashbuckler), then I would probly play nothing else.
This is all true, but rogue gets traps, trap sense, evasion, uncanny dodge, SA +2d6, 2 talents (feats), and 32 + int x4 skills from a 4 lvl dip. That is everything the OP is looking for and then some.
So Im guessing 4 rogue 3 fighter would be the best path for me towards duelist? I am like the evasion & dodge a lot not to mention the 2 free feats. The bonus skills like Byrd says definitely seems to be what I am looking for. Then I can focus solely on Duelist afterwards. :)
Did I get that right?
Yes, weapon master for early acces to weapon training. The lack of skills should be more than compensated by your first four lvls of rogue.
Those things are better gotten with Urban Ranger/Barbarian.
That will also sync very well with Dervish Dance.
Dude, you are fired! Lol!
Yes. But only with a scimitar. If you want to use a rapier, then you want the agile property placed on it.
Actually, the nice thing about Rogues is that they are MUCH more adaptable and flexible overall than the other classes mentioned here. That's really useful if you don't know your DM well, or if you are going dungeon crawling a lot.
For Rogues, here's some neat tricks:
Try using Weapon Finesse, Weapon Focus, Dodge, Mobility, along with Outflank from the APG. If you want to make your backstab even nastier, you can go for treating your blade with some form of poison, and perhaps taking this: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/rogue/archetypes/paizo---rogue -archetypes/knife-master
I have a Goblin Rogue in my game, and this archetype works wonders, since he's already limited to a d4 weapon because of his size. Plus, Goblins end up getting a +8 to Stealth because of their size and race.
Finally, this is a fun one: Get a Heavy Mithral Shield at 1020gp. You don't need a proficiency to use it, since no armor check penalty. Neat trick, no?
A few posts back you lamented not having access to the Magus rules.
Fortunately for you (and me, as only my friends actually own rulebooks, not myself) a very substantial portion of Paizo's Pathfinder rules are available online.
Paizo's database of rules
The "d20pfsrd" .
I personally find these better than physical rulebooks because you don't need to look up page numbers to find something; you can just click on the relevant section or search for it. The "d20pfsrd" I find to be especially easy to use and navigate.
I also like it better than the PDF rulebook documents since these websites tend to load faster. Also, you can open several browser tabs/windows to cross reference rules easily.
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If your character will take it upon himself to kill to protect innocent people (like protecting a peasant girl) or to see justice done that wont be done otherwise , even if his methods are shadey, I'd go with chaotic good. If he'd be willing to murder simply to avoid inconveniences I'd go with chaotic neutral. For me it would be if the character is more rebellious hero or pragmatic scoundrel.