Voadam
Legend
Straight fighter. Plate Mail. All in on archery feats and defensive ones like improved toughness and the save defense ones. Whatever race appeals.
Fighters can do fine in melee without many feats. BAB, hp, and heavy armor is generally enough.
Archery is a big set of themed feats with a bunch in the core and heavy armor artillery archery is an effective build. You can get your full attack going without spending a round charging to close. The only thing tough is avoiding the AoO for ranged, but five foot steps can sometimes take care of that. There are some builds and PRCs that eliminate them as well but I don't remember specifics off the top of my head, and a bunch that I vaguely remember were 3rd party.
Fighters can even spend one of their normal feats on a skill booster to be OK at a given skill without giving up too much of their combat build.
I would recommend specializing in at least one class skill as a character hook. Even cross class for the languages can pay off learning a new language every other level.
Fighters can do fine in melee without many feats. BAB, hp, and heavy armor is generally enough.
Archery is a big set of themed feats with a bunch in the core and heavy armor artillery archery is an effective build. You can get your full attack going without spending a round charging to close. The only thing tough is avoiding the AoO for ranged, but five foot steps can sometimes take care of that. There are some builds and PRCs that eliminate them as well but I don't remember specifics off the top of my head, and a bunch that I vaguely remember were 3rd party.
Fighters can even spend one of their normal feats on a skill booster to be OK at a given skill without giving up too much of their combat build.
I would recommend specializing in at least one class skill as a character hook. Even cross class for the languages can pay off learning a new language every other level.
