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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anax" data-source="post: 2611069" data-attributes="member: 19868">Okay.  It's time for more detail...Hariel Talandro, Female human rogue 1/swashbuckler 6.Note: I came up with the rogue/swashbuckler combo for this character while posting, so I've been trimming a bit.  Apologies if anything comes out as disjointed.I favor this build because it deals with the skill limit problem for Search (Swb/Ftr or Swb, Search would be cross-class the whole time), and fits the backstory I've been imagining (bit of a street rat, made good through the charity of the church, joined the guard to help clean up the streets, drawn into a few adventurous escapades by Our Esteem'd Benefactor), I'm now favoring that.I'm looking at the Investigate feat from ECS, and perhaps a feat to boost Search.  (WIthout the rogue level, certainly.  With the rogue level, not so important.)Stats are (pre-equipment) on the order of Str 12, Dex 16, Con 10, Int 16, Wis 10, Cha 14.  The +1 at level 4 went into Dex.  Feats are, approximately: Search skill feat (if not rogue), Investigate, Alertness, Point Blank Shot (because the church favors archery), feat to be named later (if rogue).Hariel clearly favors skill and finesse in combat.  (And panache isn't a bad thing, either.)  Out of combat, she's charming in a very cheerful sort of way.  She's seen some pretty bad things over the years, but she hasn't let it cloud her sense of hope.  She's received a good education, but remains more streetwise than knowledgable of the world outside of Flamekeep.  Due to her recent favors for the Lord Reverend ir'Indari, she's got a better idea now of what the outside world is like, and has been improving her horsemanship.  (A skill that had not seemed important in the city.)Her recent favors for the Lord Reverend ir'Indari have her eyes burning bright with the thrill of adventure, but Hariel still takes time to walk the city and do her best to make it a better place when she can.  She's a regular attendee at church, and she encourages the less fortunate families and children (because they are here, in Flamekeep, just as they are elsewhere) to attend as well, and to ask the Church for aid.  This way, she hopes, others may be helped as she was herself.Although her intellect is well-honed, Hariel is also quite athletic--and spending too much time at the books will lead her to rush out at the barest chance of physical action.  At the same time, she knows that physical action is nothing without reason to direct it.  She will trust, but not blindly.  And act quickly, but not without thought.And that about wraps up the medium-sized version.  I'll continue to flesh out the character until I hear back about whether I got in under the wire, but I won't muddy the waters with more details until requested.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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