How in the hellballs do I make Edward Elric? Of course, anime/manga universes usually have obscenely multi-talented characters, but what are the key components that would really translate from the show to Pathfinder?
Honestly....it's not possible...though I am toying around with creating a base class based on the show.
Its difficult depends on what you want to convey the most, from my perspective he is mainly a Wizard Transmuter (Enhancement School).
And perhaps has Craft Construct and several signature spells from his authorship.
You could just make his arm, if you wanna copy his melee style. Maybe using Figther brawler as your class. Treat his arm as magical cestus and change it's damage types around. You could take Eldritch Heritage to make it a Bonded item. Now you can keep modifying it.
Maybe you could be a Summoner having Alphonse(in his armor) as your Eidolon and use parts of his backstory.
A Transmutater wizard, who uses some conjuration spells to attack should be the closest to his alchemy, but it won't really bring you that close. The pit spells might be fitting Stone Call and primarily the Fabricate spell.
Oh and you have to be quite small, I mean really really short like a midget. Maybe play a gnome, this would fit such a little guy.
Eldritch knight might be worth a dip too.
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Multi-class monk (martial artist archetype) / wizard (transmutation specialist; enhancement sub-school) with absurdly high stats.
His bonded object would be his watch, obviously (could function like an amulet, taking up his neck slot).
His "mechanical arm" could be a transformative gauntlet with the storing property, as per a Glove of Storing, allowing it to store a magical spear.
I'd house rule that his automail limbs deals damage as per the monk's unarmed strike chart (perhaps even functioning as if he were large-sized). However, he would be unable to un-equip them. Thus, he would be susceptible to all sorts of spells and abilities that target metals. If either his arm or leg were to gain the broken condition, I'd rule that he takes penalties to Strength and Dexterity-based checks. Effectively, he'd suffer ability damage until they were fixed with a Craft (Automail) check; in the case of his leg sustaining heavy damage, I'd also reduce his movement speed. Were they to be destroyed, he'd be missing limbs (with all the penalties that entails).
He's easily taken the "Eschew Materials" and "Leadership" feats, with Al functioning as his cohort (I'd build Al as a warforged and take similar class levels and archetypes as with Ed).
He's also got to take the "Spell Mastery" feat so that he can cast his signature spells without preparation--spells like fabricate and interposing hand. In the later case, you'd have to re-flavor the spell so that the hand is made from stone and has the [earth] descriptor instead of [force].
Hmmm. Transmutation Wizard using a Rune Arm with the False Focus feat and Blood Money spell. False Focus and Blood Money will simulate the alchemy circle and Rune Arm being his arm obviously.
What's a Rune Arm?
I really like Detect magic's ideas but I would try to get gauntlets of the weapon master instead. That way you can store ten weapons in it and say when he summons one it's alchemy and one of them could be a punching dagger, which actually looks pretty freaking big in the UE, so it could be him transforming his arm.
Edit: This would be very expensive. 110,000 GP worth of expensive.
Thanks, Chaotic Fighter. Never heard of that item before, but it would work just as well in emulating Ed.
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Well my answer got shot all to pieces though I am actually glad it did because some of these ideas are awesome.
It'll need a few 3.5's Eberron-specific items. There's a PrC that substitutes one's bodies with construct-based works... and a construct race. Hell yeah.
Sounds like an awesome class. Where can you find that material (in which books)?
You'd do better shifting to 3.5e and picking up the Tome houserule set from the internet. That way, you can make Edward Elric without being dead weight to your team due to weak feat and spell choices. Of course, if you still want to stick with Pathfinder (though why would you?), there's always Kirthfinder here in the Paizo forums. Yes, I am not giving specific item or class advice. What I am telling you is that you'd probably need some houserules to make it viable to have the character in your party.
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I think the most accurate possibility would be an archetype for the upcoming kineticist class (occult adventures). The blast would be composed of nearby matter (as the aether kineticist), and the wild talents would include something like the fabricate spell, minor and major creation.
Spheres of Power.
a wizard or sorcerer who only uses shape earth
I like this this guy's idea
While we're on the topic of making FMA characters, I was interested in making characters for PFS play based on the homunculi.
Obviously, some adjustments would need to be made, both mechanically and in character. Will need to take most of their murderous tendencies and dial them back to be just misanthropic. And I have no way to reasonably do the whole regeneration bit in PFS.
But so far, I've gotten Greed down as an Invulnerable Rager, using beast totem for claw attacks. Then I've gotten Envy, either as a Brawler (Fighter Archetype), Brawler (class) or a Martial Artist Monk, and buying a hat of Disguise as soon as I have the money. I don't the others nailed down yet, so I'm open to suggestions.
I'll probably stick to 2003 version of Envy, seeing as I don't have any idea how I could get his true form to work properly in PFS.
This is probably not entirely what you were going for if you were trying to solely make these into playable character archetypes, but here is what I came up with in addition to yours.
(FMA Brotherhood):
Wrath: Male, Middle Aged, Augmented Humanoid (Human), Two-Weapon longsword Fighter. Don't know what level you'd be building, but either giving him boots of speed, or if you go Mythic, no higher than 1 rank and Impossible speed. If he's an NPC, go at least 12th level with Penetrating strike.
Lust: Female, Succubus, Abberant (Warped) Blooded Sorcerer, the long limbs and strange anatomy work well with that. She's beautiful yet strange, with a taste strong sense of subtlety. Her magics would be bent towards charm and manipulation.
Envy: Just a suggestion for him, but he's honestly a very powerful Doppelganger, he's perfectly capable of mimicking other perfectly and strong enough to have a beast shape too. With some Monk/brawler class levels to boot. When he transforms in FMA Brotherhood, he has a fear aura. (I never really got behind the whole dragon thing before.)
Sloth Due to his unusual size and absurd strength I'd say he's an Ogre, (Wild Rager} Barbarian. He probably has the Swift foot and Sprint Rage powers as well as all the ones allowing him to break things really well.
Gluttony I'd have to say he's able to transform into a very fat human. I don't know what character path I'd give him. Very high Constitution and lower his intelligence to 7. Maybe another sorcerer type with any spells having to do with pits and engulfing others. As a creature though, he's almost certainly a Dwiergeth.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/aberrations/dwiergeth
Pride:I have no idea what to do with him at the moment.
Spheres of Power.
Spheres of Power for the Alchemy.
Clockwork prosthetics for the arm and leg.
The Kineticist is really good for the combat aspects of the FMA Alchemists.