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I'm trying to build a PFS character that's brilliant with blade and book. The fluff being he's a the son of a noble Elven family that finally let the guy out of the library and adventure off on his own. He's not sheltered, he's just the kid who's parents were a bit too overprotective.
Elf, Lore Warden.
STR 10
DEX 16
CON 12
INT 16
WIS 12
CHA 13
Traits: Scholar of The Great Beyond, Anatomist
Feats
1. Weapon Finesse, Noble Scion (of Lore)
2. Combat Expertise, Improved Trip
3. Breadth of Knowledge
4.
5. Improved Unarmed Strike
6. Kirin Style
7. Greater Trip
8.
9. Kirin Strike
10.
11.
12. Kirin Path
The idea being a secondary combat guy, identifying the weaknesses of enemies and (in later levels) exploiting them.. all the time wielding a traditional Elven Curve Blade, of course.
As you can probably guess, I'm going for a more rounded character than optimised.
I'm just reluctant to use Feat slots that could be used for something under 'General' that could help identifying creatures. I know there's Scholar but can you take that more than once?
Anyway, any help would be much appreciated!
One of my favorite characters I've played to date was a Lore Warden 5/Student of War X. Kirin Style and the SoW's abilities mesh together really nicely.
It dished out good damage, had decent AC, and the bonus to saves from Kirin Style rounded everything out nicely. A character like this DOES need a little bit of optimizing to keep up, though. Well-rounded fighters will always under-perform most characters.. keep that in mind.