Build Help - Halfing Str Paladin with medium GS

[Alberic Strein]

The best Pathfinder GM I ever had is starting a new campaign, and a direct sequel to one I was in. In the last campaign I got an Artefact medium greatsword, and according to the GM, since I got it fairly the first time, he is okay with me having it in the sequel. Even though I have a new character. Consider this the square peg.

This new campaign is split between the Good team (us) and the evil team (the USA team), with no direct competition or PvP. According to the GM, our victory will come from being good. The little guys flying under everyone's radar. And this is actually a plot point, our characters cannot be over 3"6', and it's better if we're all halflings coming from the same village. The halflings in this specific village are under a curse making them think they're Humans, and they only worship the halfling god of good food and appreciation, with the frying pan as their favored weapon. So clerics and warpriests are pretty much out of the equation. Consider this the round hole.

I was thinking making a hospitaler paladin, with this god awful stat array:

STR 15 -> 13 (+1)
DEX 10 -> 12 (+1)
CON 14 -> 14 (+2)
INT 13 -> 13 (+1)
WIS 10 -> 10 (+0)
CHA 16 -> 18 (+4)

Since the goal is to wield the artefact sword, I aimed for 13str for power attack. Unsanctioned Knowledge sounds like a good way to put some buffing spells on my list, to use wands or scrolls of these spells without having to roll UMD, and since I get a racial bonus to charisma, I might as well invest in it. Through hospitaler paladin I can rarely smite evil, but it allows me to add another pool that grows with charisma.

Grab some skills with traits (perception, UMD), as well as fate's favored and the naive drawback, fey foundling for my feat, and trade racial traits for fleet footed. And that's pretty much were I was. The GM seems pretty clear on this not being a normal campaign, with the opportunity to gain new traits/feats based on our actions.

So yeah, wacky campaign, square peg round hole, and I am more than a little lost here if I am to be honest.

[Wonderstell]

So you're starting at level 1?

And to clarify, you and your GM are ignoring that a medium greatsword can't be wielded by a small creature? If not, then you need to dip a level.

[VoodistMonk]

Without levels in Titan Fighter or Titan Mauler, how is this small-sized character using a medium-sized Greatsword?

Normally, you cannot use larger two-handed weapons... using a larger weapon increases the effort it takes to use it.. and thus light increases to one-handed, and one-handed increase to two-handed... there is nowhere for a two-handed weapon to increase, so it simply is no allowed without specific class features or abilities that give you that exact ability.

[Alberic Strein]

Maybe he won't enforce it, but I wouldn't bet on it.

We are indeed starting at level 1, but I don't expect a lot of fighting at 1st level. The plan was to invest in an Enlarge Person wand (or ask the magic caster of the group) before using the sword and just using something else in the meantime. I had forgotten that I do need to neither wear nor carry the sword to avoid it jumping up in size, so I'll either need a hireling squire to carry the sword on the regular, or drop it before the spell and picking it back up again after.

But yeah, the need to squeeze any form of size increase as soon as possible was another part of the problem. I was looking at cha based classes hybrid classes with the enlarge person spell, but I couldn't make it fit and the GM was really into the paladin for some reason. That's also why I went for Unsanctioned Knowledge in the first place, I thought the spell would be on at list one of the spell lists, or I could get access to another size increase spell like Righteous Might, but no.

So yeah no, don't worry, I am fully aware that as a small creature I am completely f'd trying to use a 2 handed medium weapon, it's part of the reason I made this thread.

[Trokarr]

One thing I would definitely consider would be NOT being a halfling but a small sized (halfling) Aasimar. This will give you a much better stat block for a strength based melee fighter. You can take the trait Adopted (halfling) to justify being in the village. You may even believe yourself to be a halfling if u want.

[Trokarr]

If your GM is cool with it you could go with a small sized Tiefling (probably Demon-spawn for the bonus to strength and charisma) and let you choose the oversized limbs Variant Tiefling Ability. Go with the Adopted (halfling) trait again as well.

[amethal]

A Cloak of the Hedge Wizard (Transmutation version) allows Enlarge Person 1/day at CL 1 (among other things) and is 2,500 gp.

What would be really useful are Juggernaut's Pauldrons, which allow Enlarge Person at will, but they are 40,000 gp.

A Flask of Endless Sake would be hilarious for 4,000 gp; 1 in 6 chance of Enlarge Person, but also a 1 in 6 chance of Reduce Person ... I'm not sure whether you can attempt to identify the potion it produces before drinking it, but trying to do so would clearly be against the spirit (pun not intended!) of the item description.