I've found a progression of feats I like, and a "combat theme" for a fighter. This is a character who's going to spend gold like water on things like Winged Boots and other things of a "mythological" bent.
What I'm trying to figure out is where they come from on Golarion, or what their background would be to justify this kind of focus.
Here's the build, the class is fighter, the race is human. Havn't locked in the fighter feats at 9th or 12th.
STR 14+2, DEX 13, CON 14, INT 12, WIS 12, CHA 13 (Human)
1T Theoretical Magician (Spellcraft as class skill)
1T Defender of the Society (+1 AC if in Medium or Heavy armor).
1H Step Up
1F Following Step
1G Skill Focus (Knowledge Nature)
2F Combat Reflexes, Cloak +1
3G Eldritch Heritage (Starsoul), +1 Longsword, +1 Shield
4F Power Attack, +1 DEX, STR Belt +1
5G Iron Will, +2 Shield, +2 Cloak
6F Disruptive, STR Belt becomes STR/CON Belt
7G Step Up and Strike, Winged Boots, Belt becomes STR/DEX/CON Belt.
8F Cleave, +1 CHA, CHA Circlet +2.
9G ??, CHA Circlet becomes CHA/WIS Circlet.
10F Spellbreaker
11G Improved Eldritch Heritage (Starsoul)
12F ??, +1 WIS
Skills: 4+1/level @ first, as the splash completes. This will eventually swap to boosting HPs once I get secondary skills into the +10 range.
Knowledge (Nature) 1+1+0+3 = +5
Spellcraft 1+1+0+3 = +5
Intimidate 1+2+3 = +6
Handle Animal 1+2+3 = +6
Climb 1+3+3 = +7
Eldritch Heritage means that I have a way to deal with swarms that isn't dependent on the party having flasks of alchemist fire or there being an arcanist around. Plus, I'm picturing this character as someone who "dabbles" in magic.
Improved Eldritch Heritage gives me Low Light Vision, Resist Fire 5, Resist Cold 5, and no need to breathe, all of which are useful to a front line/charge ahead fighter.
Combat Reflexes is there for that far off day where someone backs away (draws an AoO from Step Up & Strike) and then casts a spell, potentially drawing a second AoO from Spellbreaker.
Korvosa. You dabbled at the Theumanexus College as you weren't quite good enough to enter the Acadamae. The threat of the wilds and shoanti tribes keep martial types in high demand and you blend the specializations of Korvosa into one: a mobile fighter with some arcane tricks up his sleeve.
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Korvosa. You dabbled at the Theumanexus College as you weren't quite good enough to enter the Acadamae. The threat of the wilds and shoanti tribes keep martial types in high demand and you blend the specializations of Korvosa into one: a mobile fighter with some arcane tricks up his sleeve.
This sounds like a good Idea to me.
I've found a progression of feats I like, and a "combat theme" for a fighter. This is a character who's going to spend gold like water on things like Winged Boots and other things of a "mythological" bent.
What I'm trying to figure out is where they come from on Golarion, or what their background would be to justify this kind of focus.
Here's the build, the class is fighter, the race is human. Havn't locked in the fighter feats at 9th or 12th.
STR 14+2, DEX 13, CON 14, INT 12, WIS 12, CHA 13 (Human)
1T Theoretical Magician (Spellcraft as class skill)
1T Defender of the Society (+1 AC if in Medium or Heavy armor).1H Step Up
1F Following Step
1G Skill Focus (Knowledge Nature)
Also if you are determined to take skill focus at level one why not try the human swap out Focused Study? It takes your human bonus feat and gives Skill Focus at 1st, 8th, and 16th levels.
Karatheon: Good one, I like it.
I'm also being mildly tempted by the Armor Master archetype, as I was planning on going sword and board in any case...
While build advice is appreciated, I'm still trying to figure out where in Golarion this character is from.
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Absalom. The character is inspired by the stories of those like Cayiden and Iomedae who took the Test of the Starstone and became gods. Further inspired by the many who try to take the Test of the Starstone and failed.
Character has come to the realization that if you want to be mythical, you got to act mythical and gear up mythical or you will fail.
The name shall be Umberto the Unavoidable.
Absalom, or maybe Quantium in Nex.
Umberto de Cosima, called The Unavoidable
The youngest son of one of Korvosa's Dock Families, he was sent to the Theumanexus College to give him some discipline and see him better himself, and to see if his talents for magic could be awakened.
He lasted two semesters, was barely able to assist his lab partners in performing cantrips. What he did excel at was winning fights, as he came into his growth spurt late. He had an aggressive spirit, a strong arm, and the basic familiarity with weapons that comes to younger sons of the nobility, charged with defending their homes against invaders.
Eventually, to the disappointment of his father, he convinced them that spending their money on Theumanexus College was a waste of his time and their gold, though his studies with the naturalist teacher Kyrie Erdo appeared to give him solid basis. The rumors of an affair were completely unfounded, and her taking an extended sabbatical after he left the school is simply coincidental.
His father's disappointment meant that he needed to make himself scarce, and his knowledge of both bladework and the theoretical aspects of magic meant that there was a place for him, where he could exercise his talents and not sponge off of his parents - the Pathfinder Society.
He's completed additional training with the Pathfinder lodge in Magnimar.
He has two older brothers, an older sister and a younger sister. He knows Korvosa well, his parents are still alive, and while his father's disappointed he didn't do something useful for the family, at least he's not a layabout in the mansion, getting drunk and picking fights in the streets.
I figure, given his first level feats, that "The Unavoidable" is a rather appropriate nickname. Plus, it implies a bit of social opportunism.