Hafllings can be very effective two weapon fighting sneaking rogues, thought it is arguable that their damage output is not great, but my brother plays one and he doesn't suck. Halfling a are also effective archer paladins (see the guides).
Generally a melee focused haflin barbarian, fighter, paladin, monk will not be effective, but may be fun to play for kicks and giggles.
Hafllings can be very effective two weapon fighting sneaking rogues, thought it is arguable that their damage output is not great, but my brother plays one and he doesn't suck. Halfling a are also effective archer paladins (see the guides).
Generally a melee focused haflin barbarian, fighter, paladin, monk will not be effective, but may be fun to play for kicks and giggles.
good point, ur opinions are good.
Halfling Cavalier can be great. Specifically because you ride a medium mount and won't have nearly as many problems using mounted combat in a dungeon.
Any sort of Dex based rogue works well too. I personally like a Halfling Sniper with a sling staff. Sniping may not be a good option though since you are just a 2 man crew.
Rogue Scout is pretty great.
Halfling invisible blade ninja.
Dex based halfling TWF fighter.
Losing 2 str does not preclude you from making any sort of build. Its not 100% optimized, but that doesn't mean its not effective.
As a gm I had some fun coming up win a Twf goblin barbarian, could be interesting.
As lord malkov said, having the mount boosts your combat ability a lot has a hacking cavalier.
Ravingdork has a monster halfling fighter in his emporium for ideas.
The halfling opportunist is a fun prestige class to build to.
I always thought the katana or wakizashi could be other words for Halfling curved swords (as opposed to an Elven Curved Sword), because the ninja is a great class.
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Halfling TWF Samurai and Halfling Fighter with Elritch Heritage? Yay!
Paired Halfling fighters (or rangers) with shield wall teamwork feat. With dex 16, scale mail and heavy shield your AC will be 23 at level 1.
Oh I almost forgot, hafling with all the really fun hafling racial feats:
-cautious fighter
-blundering defense
-desperate swing
-lucky strike
-surprise strike
-uncanny defense
Fun!!!
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Honestly, this sounds like a FANTASTIC opportunity for a stealth campaign. Usually stealth is strictly limited to scouting, since there's no way the heavy armor guys are getting through an area undetected. With two halflings, though, you could definitely get away with it.
Here's what I'm thinking: one of you goes Rogue/Ninja, one of you goes Ranger (with the non-spellcasting archetype if you prefer). You can both get excellent stealth; the ninja can handle diplomatic situations and disable device, and get UMD, while the ranger can handle survival and stuff in that area and be an awesome archer. You guys can even take Stealth Synergy to be crazy amazing at stealth.
I don't know how it would work with your NPC, but IMO if you could play the campaign the same way with a pair of Dwarfs you're missing out.
I found halfling cavaliers with order of the paw pretty nice too.
That overrun at level 8 is just awesome.
You can still be stealthy, together with your wolf, you also makes for a good flanking partner and backup.
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You probably won't have much with combat maneuevers as a small character. You'd think a nimble monk halfling jumping up and poking a giant in the eyes would work and be awesome, but by rules as written it's nigh impossible since it's your CMB against the giant's CMD.
What level are you starting at, and would it be possible to get Agile weapons or an Agile Amulet of Mighty Fists?
If then i recommend the halfling racial monk archetype underfoot adept.
That one is awesome at tripping and you get a lot of boni.
Multiclassing there is not the best idea i fear, since a lot of stuff comes in at later levels or scales with level. I would concentrate on one. As a cavalier you probably want to charge a lot and overrun enemies with your mount. Your teammember could then make use of the AoO´s, but would need some defense of his own.
As a monk you are kind of versatile, but you don´t do that much damage as a small monk. In a low magic world monks can be quite good though i think.