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Message: <blockquote data-quote="paqqy" data-source="post: 5039663" data-attributes="member: 75432">Well, part of the issue is not so much age, but some story elements that suggest life experience... Like the fact that the country that my character is from has mandatory military duty (like Israel and Singapore). Given other elements--that I come from a family of respected clerics/oracles-- suggests that, if anything, I should have been doing something respectable. I've thought of working around this by having him be a paper-pusher or a researcher. Then I wouldn't necessarily gain any levels...Whatever he was doing, he's working for a government agency, so he has to have a clean record and respectable credentials. hahaNay, my character has already been adventuring with the 'FBI' doing his archivist gig. It's the other adventurers who will be joining me on special ops. If that sounds like an NPC role, it is. My character was originally an NPC, but the DM shifted that role to me as a way of introducing the initial plot to the group who, by the way, are old friends and have no idea that I am going to be playing remotely over skype... After the intro, I'll keep playing this character.It's fun trying to come up with a story around some of those elements... although it also does a number on how I deal with setting my levels, etc. and is somewhat restrictive. =-\I think bard is perhaps one of those things that might work in terms of optimizing, but might not work for the character's backstory. The only way I could see this working is if his military training was to make him a bard. A few snags though:- Inspire Courage = +1 to atk/dmg/fear... Nobility Domain = +2 to all saves/checks/atk/dmg.(Though I'm debating taking the mind domain instead, as Nobility is not Boccob's domain)- Magic Domain allows me to use wizard items as if I were a wizard. Isn't that better than UMD because there are no rolls? My experience is that there are divine items and wizard items, so I'd have my bases covered?- Trading away the Knowledge Domain (which I find somewhat lackluster) at 2nd level (CompDiv) would give me the Knowledge Devotion Feat for free. The only spell I would want from that Domain is Foresight and I could probably get a copy of that at a temple or through research.I'm definitely not trying to put down your ideas. I really appreciate them! I'm naturally stubborn and argumentative. ha!</blockquote>

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