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...the Scout could become an Order of the Bow Initiate at level 6 I think, the Fighter at level 4.

Song and Silence has rogue oriented prestige classes, but I don't think any fit what you're aiming for? Maybe Outlaw on the Crimson Road, or even Dread Pirate - though I don't think we're doing stuff on boats.

But yeah, Sword and Fist is probably the place you want to look. The Complete Adventurer also has the Ninja class as a basic class, as well as the Scout for a ranged specialist class that doesn't have pets.

There's a prestige class that can combine sneak attacks with ranged attacks. Sword and Fist prestige class called "Order of the Bow Initiate". Given the number of feats necessary to go into this prestige class, I'd highly suggest starting off simply as a warrior. You would be able to get into this prestige class by level 5 I believe, if you started as a Human Fighter.

The Ninja of the Crescent Moon class before it is a bit of a rogue-monk mix, using the monks ability to launch insane amounts of unarmed strikes with the rogues stealth. Don't be fooled, though, the monk DOES in fact get the ability to use weapons besides just his fists. I'd suggest looking at that class, myself, they have a lot of good feats, particularly from Sword and Fist.

You might also like the Duelist from Sword and Fist?

Was just reading somewhere else... you can pick the Oversized Two-Weapon Fighting feat instead of Weapon Focus and then use Scimitars/Rapiers instead, since they would count as light weapons in offhand and not give you bad penalties.

I sent you a reply. Personally, I think you might look at a pure Knight class or a pure Fighter class at the beginning - the Knight gets such good tanking abilities and the Fighter could give you tons of feats by level 10 (one feat at levels 1,3,6,9, and fighter bonus feats at 1,2,4,6,8,10) for a total of 10 feats by level 10. You could easily get that dual wield specialization I talked about, as well as some others. Another idea might be to combine it with an archer fighter, using other feats to get good with a bow. A composite bow will let you take advantage of a high strength score and apply that to the bows damage roll as well. By level 10 you could be quite deadly with those weapons, and still have room to either continue down as a fighter or change things up and look at a different class.

You sure you don't want to level up that Paladin to 2? At level 2, you'd have 900 gold, so you could afford the stuff. At level one, you have 6d4x10 gold (150g on average).

Also, you're at 104 lb. carry capacity, and your loads are 0-58 = light, 59-116 = medium, 117-175 = heavy. You're pushing heavy load. The penalty for the load limits is:
Medium: Max dex +3, Armor check penalty -3, Speed: (30 ft becomes 20 ft; 20 ft becomes 15 ft, Run x4)
Heavy: Max dex +1, Armor check penalty -6, Speed: (30 ft becomes 20 ft; 20 ft becomes 15 ft, Run x3)

I personally wouldn't complain if you bumped your strength, or another stat, up to 16, since you have the lowest average stats out of our group currently.

That wall of text you wrote...I wouldn't even be able to come up with a quarter of what you just wrote.

I don't think a starting level paladin can afford full plate, you should start with around 150g and full plate is more than 800g, just letting you know.

You'd make one hell of a Faction Leader.

As Rom said, love your sig gif. Great image.

By the by, would you like to get your Victor Ramsay together with my Yen Iseya for an RP? Just something social, I think, I'd like to get her fleshed out some. Yen Iseya is a person who was fond of the old Empire and hates the Sith, joined the Rebels in order to restore the Empire. She's more aligned with the Imperial Knights, though she's not FS herself. Might be interesting?

Do you know that seeing your post followed by that gif in your signature was amazing?

Cause I felt you should know.

Might I join you chaps in Booze and Reacquaintance with my new Indie, Lev? Did you have any plans for the thread?

Can I post in Booze and Reacquaintances? don't worry, just Tyflos.

No worries! I'll get a reply up ASAP.

Hey, post in our thread when you can.

Hey! Sorry about the wait on that post, very much unfair to you. I'll be replying a lot faster from here onward! Try to give me something to bounce off of in your reply if you can, so we can get a little momentum going. :) It's now 4 am where I am so I am going to go crash, talk to you in the morning.

Sent you a Skype message! I got your pm.

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