Old Age Ratfolk with a 32pt buy:
10,16,12,19,14,10... level 4 stat bump makes it:
10,16,12,20,14,10... not bad, for a little old rat.
That's a 14,16,14,16,13,9 buy in before racials and age adjustments.
I suggest Precise Bombs and Infusion
precise bombs is nice. but doesn't work when you miss. and then it might hurt.
i recommend splash weapon mastery feat (ether instead or in addition). that help even if you miss to guide the bomb elsewhere.
also count as far shot for alchemical weapons AND add a selected square to the splash area. they re not always grouped together, this will add a lot of bang to your bombs.
Grenadiers get precise bombs as a bonus discovery. Splash weapon mastery in place of the extra discovery feat (as zza ni suggests) is an option of course, but you'll be getting precise bombs too.
I might get inspiring cognatogen on this rat to play up his brains, or weapon finesse to let him have a chance of stabbing something with his sword cane (when the cane's loaded with an alchemical weapon of course; it wouldn't be worth trying otherwise).
A few alchemical weapons to use if your bombs run out. A more martially oriented grenadier might add them to their weapon attacks, but I'm not sure that's you.
Some alchemical tools and alchemical remedies.
A mithral chain shirt and a mithral buckler.
A bunch of coins and/or trade goods to buy magic items with when you actually can do so.
Some of those fins that increase the range of your bombs... bomb throwers?
Pellet grenades of various types to bypass DR.
Choking and Sneezing Powder for when you have to really mess $#!+ up.
A fancy formula book?
Acid is the cheapest useful alchemical weapon (10 gp) and it's a useful damage type. Throwing tanglefoot bags or shard gel is also a useful thing to do sometimes.
Tracking powder, adhesive strips (duct tape), stagnant fog sacks (probably redundant for you), tunnel creepers, silence dust and deodorizing agents are some items I mentioned recently for a sneaky rogue. Some of these may be useful to you. Fire ward gel and frost ward gel may be useful too; usually spells/scrolls are better but obviously they're not an option here.
Remedies include antitoxin, antiplague, soothe syrup, mellowroot and meditation tea. Most are best used as a buff before you encounter the threat. 3 vials of dragon blood can cure a negative level out of combat.
You don't need to get all of these, just what you think would be useful. If you do try to get everything it's easy to forget them when you need them, be warned.
... maybe one of those Wind in the Willows Characters, but maybe a little steampunk.
Yeah, play him like Badger ;)
Chaotic Nuetral is easy... don't get caught up anything that you don't want to, or doesn't directly benefit you. You get to say, "I'd help you out with that, but I don't want to."
Sounds about right. Lol.
Just don't get caught up in politics or religion. And always play your character as if they can walk away at any point of their choosing. If your character ever wonders why they are doing something, remind people that you don't HAVE to do it.
It's not a lack of commitment, you are just committed to your own agenda. You may appear apathetic, selfish, uninterested, or narcissistic... but those traits aren't part of being CN, it's all how you want your character to look to others. You can be super caring, kind, and helpful... even as a CN character... but it's because you want to be.
Picking a way you want the character to behave then deciding what alignment that is works better than the reverse IME.
I'd go for a mad scientist vibe. Appearing uncaring etc. doesn't work that well in an RPG, instead ham it up with an interest in SCIENCE! to the exclusion of caring about good, evil etc.
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Your character probably LIKES blowing $#!+ up on a personal level... that's why you are using Bombs. It is a preferrence that probably makes your character seem like a hammer, looking at every problem likes it's a nail... your first choice is to always blow it up. People stop asking you what you think the party should do, how you would handle the situation, or what you want to do... because it's always blow $#!+ up.
EVERYTHING can be handled with the correct application of high explosives...
Play your character like Bill Murray in Caddyshack running around with C-4 shaped likes squirrels.
Try to think up some interests of his own... whatever an old rat might find interesting these days. Maybe he is secretly tired of limping around with a cane and wants to fly. So you use a Discovery for Wings, which fulfills a self-interest, makes your rat cool because it has freaking wings, and you get to casually drop Bombs on people from above/out of harm's way. Maybe he has always wanted a pocket watch and is looking for one or building one. Maybe he has always wanted to get good with a bow and dabbles in Eldritch Archer Magus. Or maybe he has long white hair and tinkers with being a Witch. The point is, he needs to want things of his own in order to do what he wants.
I find skavens a great inspiration for ratfolks characters ;)
In addition to all the great advises for the build e.g. grenadier, etc. I would add that I would get the cognatogen discovery asap as this will really boost your damage, DC of your bpombs, your number of spells and you don't need dex so much given you hit touch AC.