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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4979526" data-attributes="member: 710">Multiclassing Bard will probably not end very satisfying, I am afraid. You lose to much of the Bardic spellcasting and special abilities, and the bard itself doesn't add all that much to being a decent fighter.Rogue or Rogue/Fighter certainly sounds the best. If you don't want to kill people, a Sap is a good choice. (Unless the rules on sneak attack and nonlethal damage have changed between 3.5 and Pathfinder), or maybe Improved Unarmed. (You swing your sword until you see an opening, then use an unarmed strike to deal nonlethal damage with sneak attack.)What mix you will focus on depends on your preferences and maybe what happens in-game. Maybe you need a better guy at the front-lines, maybe you need someone with really good social skills.If you start at 3rd level: Your first level should be Rogue, of course, then you can see whether it's more important to get 5 ranks in your most important skills (second level of Rogue) or to get one extra bonus feat (2 levels of Fighter).Just one warning: Make it clear to yourself and everyone else whether you being a Rogue also means you will be the "trap"-guy or not. For your character concept, you will probably need the skill points for social skills, not for the trap-related skills.</blockquote>