Champion or War Priest?

[Tridus]

The Raven Black wrote:

Ryangwy wrote:

FlayeSFS wrote:

Something else I need to consider: as a Versatile Human, she gets a 1st level General Feat. So far I've only considered Toughness, which fits the concept, but I'm not sure the +1HP/level helps as much as other feats might.

Everyone has the retraining advice, but I should note Toughness is essentially +1 Con, which means you effectively start 3 all in your important stats. And if you really want to lower Con for Cha or Wis, you can do it.

Toughness does not increase your Fortitude save though.

At 1st level, it is only 1 more HP. I think it can wait till level 3.

Except at level 3 you can get Robust Health which if you have someone with Battle Medicine in the party is really strong.

[FlayeSFS]

So about that General Training ... I could use it to take Adopted Ancestry. Since I do get an Ancestral Feat at level 1, I assume I could choose one from my adopted Ancestry. I don't see why not.

So I could adopt Dwarves & take Unburdened Iron. I expect I would not be able to also use my normally acquired Human Ancestry feat, but that's OK. Something else to consider, I can't see any Heavy armor that I could afford at 1st level, so that can be put off for a couple play sessions as well. I don't mind waiting until 2nd level for Heavy armor :)

[Ryangwy]

The Raven Black wrote:

Toughness does not increase your Fortitude save though.

At 1st level, it is only 1 more HP. I think it can wait till level 3.

Warpriests start with expert Fortitude, they'll be fine. Retraining heavy armour into Toughness and potentially dropping Con for more Wis is entirely survivable, basically.

[Dr. Frank Funkelstein]

FlayeSFS wrote:

I can't see any Heavy armor that I could afford at 1st level

you can take a medium armor and add an armored skirt.

[ScooterScoots]

Or ask a party member for some gold (depending on the specifics of the campaign’s start)