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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gaiden" data-source="post: 3898736" data-attributes="member: 103">I am picturing Campbell from Braveheart (Wallace's friend's father) for your character.  I like to envision the character first and then work out the stats to fit the image.  IIRC, the penalties for aging are this, -1 str/dex/con, +1 int/wis/chr for middle aged, cumultive -2 str/dex/con, +1 int/wis/chr for old, and cumultive -3 str/dex/con, +1 int/wis/chr for venerable.  I am pretty sure you would be in the middle aged category at 55-60 (but I can't remember for sure), so your stat penalties aren't huge (just make sure to put odd scores in those abilities).To stat out the character, the obvious choice is to utilize the bonuses to your mental scores for combat and to get as many bonuses as possible to the physical stats for compensation.  Keeping my interpretation of your character concept in mind the obvious class choices are fighter and barbarian.  The Tome of Battle classes are extremely cool, however, I don't know if they necessarily fit the concept (unless you want to add in a religious/spritual element).However, you can make a very effective character with just the fighter/barbarian combination.  You can wear heavy armor while raging making your combat prowess extreme.  Moreover, you can prestige into Champion of Gwnyver (I presume that by all core, you meant all WotC Greyhawk setting books as you already listed PHB and DMG).  That class gives you a bunch of paladin bonuses and lets you rage in addition.  You would get the low level cleric buff spells and could benefit from a good charisma score.  You could specialize in sword/board fighting and really focus on shield abilities (some of the available feats accomplish what expertise does without being trumped by raging).  IDHMBWM to recall about DR, but I remember this - just get yourself some adamentium armor <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.</blockquote>

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