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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maggot" data-source="post: 2277593" data-attributes="member: 1005">If you are going mostly rogue, eventually power attack won't be that good of an option.  When you deal +5d6 damage with a strike (and let's face it, if you are a rogue, you had better be sneak attacking), taking -2 to hit to deal another +4 damage isn't that good of an idea.  You are already dealing +17.5 on the average from sneak.You can pick up power attack for the initial charge, it is quite effective.But if you are a rogue, the idea is to get as many sneaks as possible, and this means two-weapon fighting.  For single attacks, you want that 1-1/2 stregth bonus, so you want either quick draw so you can shift between wielding a battleaxe two-handed, and wielding a handaxe in the other hand, all without losing the iterative attacks.  You can replace battleaxe/handaxe with longsword/shortsword if you want.  The other option is to spend the quickdraw feat on an exotic double weapon like the two-bladed sword.  Or if you are really feat starved, you can save a feat and just go with quarterstaff.  At high levels the extra +1 damage from two-bladed sword won't matter so much, but the reduced crit range will always hurt.Unfortunately, to continue in the two-weapon fighting arena, you need a high dex.  And since you want to tumble, you'll want to wear light armor, so you'll want a high dex for both of those as well.</blockquote>