First Society Char

[Philderbeast]

WEll i have never played a pen and paper RPG before, but had a game of path finder society and loved it so i have been working on my first character.

Could you please take a look over what i have scome up with and see if i have made any fatal flaws?

gender: Male
Race: Half-Elf
Class: Sorcerer

Faction: Scarni
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Age: 28
Height: 5' 7"
weight: 135 LB

Stats
STR 8
DEX 12
CON 14
INT 14
WIS 10
CHA 18

Feats
Combat casting
Escher Materials

Skills:
Skill Focus (spellcraft)
Appraise
Diplomacy
Perception
use magic device

traits
Focusd mind
Greasy Palm

Bloodline: Draconic
(copper dragon (fire))

Languages
Abyssal
Daemoic
Common
Eleven

Spells
lvl0
Detect Magic
Light
Read Magic
Ray of frost

lvl1
Burning hands
Feather fall

thanks in advance

[DesolateHarmony]

Philderbeast wrote:

WEll i have never played a pen and paper RPG before, but had a game of path finder society and loved it so i have been working on my first character.

Could you please take a look over what i have scome up with and see if i have made any fatal flaws?

Stats
STR 8
DEX 12
CON 14
INT 14
WIS 10
CHA 18

These are all but identical to my own sorceress'! Watch out that you don't need more DEX for casting rays.

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Feats

Combat casting
Escher Materials

Easiest if you mark the Eschew Materials as a bonus feat, for those not familiar with sorcerers. Combat Casting might be a very good choice, but I try to stay away from bad guys. Grappling though, that happens.

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Skills:

Skill Focus (spellcraft)
Appraise
Diplomacy
Perception
use magic device

Skill Focus is another feat. You should have that listed as a bonus feat up above. Half-elves are good that way. Note that Diplomacy and Perception are not normally class skills, and so you don't get the class skill bonus with them. That said, they are two really important skills.

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traits

Focusd mind
Greasy Palm

Bloodline: Draconic
(copper dragon (fire))

Draconic is considered by many to be a really good bloodline.

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Languages

Abyssal
Daemoic
Common
Eleven

Spells
lvl0
Detect Magic
Light
Read Magic
Ray of frost

lvl1
Burning hands
Feather fall

Feather Fall might be a good choice at first level, but it is pretty situational. I found color spray to be more useful then.

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thanks in advance

You are very welcome!

Get ahold of the Pathfinder Society Guide to Organized Play. Link to Player Resources The Guide is free, and has important rules. One great rule is that, until you play a character at second level, you can rebuild it. This means that you can try the character out, and if something doesn't work as well as you like, you can change it. Until you play the character at second level.

[Todd Lower]

DesolateHarmony wrote:

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You are very welcome!

One great rule is that, until you play a character at second level, you can rebuild it. This means that you can try the character out, and if something doesn't work as well as you like, you can change it....

If your character background calls for appraise then that is a good choice, but otherwise it is a little situational and maybe a knowledge skill would be more useful at first level.

Edit: If you plan to identify magic items knowledge (Arcana) is required with spellcraft and detect magic.

[Skerek]

Everything seems pretty good, but

Philderbeast wrote:

Skill Focus (spellcraft)

If you plan on taking points into UMD (and hell, as a sorcerer, why not) Skill Focus(Use Magical Device) will probably serve you better than Spellcraft.

The DCs for UMD are rather high, the lowest being 20, highest can get into the 30s for society.

There is also the fact that if you fail to use a magical item on a Nat 1 you can't use it for 24 hours.

EDIT: Almost forgot to mention, UMD is the only skill you cannot take 10 on (some prestige classes will allow this to happen).