Looking for a class & a Archetype for a character is I'm porting over from 5e

[Nosta1300]

So well this is not actually happen my friend and I are worried my friends 5e game May fall through and i actually like this character background

Orphan boy grows up on street and is dying but refuses to steal. So a member of a order o knights takes him in. He sees something in the boy that others don't and so he raises and Trains the boy hoping one day he'll take his spot years past and boy is a man but one day he comes home and finds his foster father / mentor with a Dagger I'm the back. Dead on the floor. He gets blamed the knights can't actually prove He did it but he will not be allowed in the organization.

So he sets out to prove his innocence.

He is a lawful hood honorable fighter. Will not ambush and will not gang up on a enemy

What class would be good?
In the 5e game he's a paladin
But i feel like he could be a calvailier but not sure
He uses a polearm

[VoodistMonk]

Ther Cavalier's Order of the Cockatrice helps when you are the only one threatening an enemy, but I don't know if the rest of the Order fits your character... I will have to nose around, see what else I can find.

Disciple of the Pike Cavaliers get Weapon Training with polearms... and a bunch of neat crap for fighting much larger enemies. Pairs well with Underfoot Halflings and Order of the Lion for some pretty substantial Dodge bonuses to AC (which stack).

Warrior Poet Samurai get Weapon Finesse with a Glaive, and can do some neat things with fienting.

There is a Samurai archetype that quasi-gestalts with Fighter... might be worth looking into depending what shenanigans you are up to.

Don't forget that you can pick up a Cavalier Order from VMC, either.

[UnArcaneElection]

I wouldn't recommend Order of the Cockatrice -- the edicts pretty much dictate that you have to be a jerk.

[avr]

There's a polearm-focused fighter archetype, the dragoon. Which demonstrates that someone writing for Paizo has no idea what a dictionary is. Not ambushing people is a thing that tends to happen if you wear heavy armor anyway, being lawful good doesn't require paladinhood. Not ganging up on enemies, that's a limit which isn't required even of paladins or cavaliers of the order of the sword - it is based purely on your roleplaying rather than game elements.

[kingspikearcher]

Ask your GM if they will allow you to take the Redemption story feat. It isn't technically appropriate as you didn't lose class features, but it entirely designed around a long-term quest to absolve yourself that includes confronting a challenging foe. The Shamed story feat would alternatively work but is a little less strongly themed.

[UnArcaneElection]

avr wrote:

There's a polearm-focused fighter archetype, the dragoon. Which demonstrates that someone writing for Paizo has no idea what a dictionary is. Not ambushing people is a thing that tends to happen if you wear heavy armor anyway, being lawful good doesn't require paladinhood. Not ganging up on enemies, that's a limit which isn't required even of paladins or cavaliers of the order of the sword - it is based purely on your roleplaying rather than game elements.

Not sure why you think somebody writing the Dragoon Fighter archetype doesn't know how to use a dictionary -- the archetype actually does seem decently although incompletely geared towards being a Dragoon, which is mounted heavily armed warrior (and it is geared towards Spears, not Polearms). The thing that Dragoon is annoyingly missing is a Mount class feature, so you either need to dip 4 levels of Cavalier and get Horse Master, or go the Nature Soul/Animal Ally/Boon Companion route (which is generally better, since you are spending 2 more feats but not delaying progression of class features -- although since Banner explicitly stacks, that isn't quite as bad as it sounds).

The Wikipedia entry for Dragoon explains in more detail that originally Dragoons were mounted infantry, who would get off their horses to fight, which matches more with the archetype out of the box, but later (still within sword and early firearm times) evolved to become essentially a type of cavalry (and then in modern times, mechanized forces).

[Wonderstell]

UnArcaneElection wrote:

avr wrote:

There's a polearm-focused fighter archetype, the dragoon. Which demonstrates that someone writing for Paizo has no idea what a dictionary is. Not ambushing people is a thing that tends to happen if you wear heavy armor anyway, being lawful good doesn't require paladinhood. Not ganging up on enemies, that's a limit which isn't required even of paladins or cavaliers of the order of the sword - it is based purely on your roleplaying rather than game elements.

Not sure why you think somebody writing the Dragoon Fighter archetype doesn't know how to use a dictionary -- the archetype actually does seem decently although incompletely geared towards being a Dragoon, which is mounted heavily armed warrior (and it is geared towards Spears, not Polearms).

*smacks lips* How ironic

UnArcaneElection wrote:

The thing that Dragoon is annoyingly missing is a Mount class feature, so you either need to dip 4 levels of Cavalier and get Horse Master, or go the Nature Soul/Animal Ally/Boon Companion route (which is generally better, since you are spending 2 more feats but not delaying progression of class features -- although since Banner explicitly stacks, that isn't quite as bad as it sounds).

Another option is playing a small race on a Mauler Familiar, or three levels of Ironbound Sword Samurai.

[Today is a good day to... halp]

Mebbe some version of a full BAB Vigilante with an applicable archetype since he has to clear his name and all. ;)