Hi, i've only dabbled in playing pally's on my server, however i'm soon going to TR my sorc, and I was thinking of making him into a pally. Alignment is already LG.

However, I want to go WF sword and board. Was thinking about giving him a scimitar or kopesh to use.

I'm looking at maybe going for close to max AC, and was thinking 16 starting dex would suffice in order to max out shield and heavy armor bonus with the prestige III line for defender. I'm not too concerned with going high dps for this character, after all, he will be using a shield 100% of the time. so i'm looking at starting with low Str, and low Int, and I would like him to have a good Wis score and a high Cha. because I would be nerfing his Str, i'm looking to make up for some lost dps by adding a high cha modified damage, and possibly consider taking power attack.

I realize that by nerfing Str, I will be greatly reducing his attack and damage bonus, so in order to mitigate that, I could pick up weapons finesse, and dump str all together and jack up his dex. The flipside to that would be, again losing damage.

I'm willing to sacrifice dps for ac and better saves. I was hoping to minimize dex though, so after eating a +2 dex tome, I would cap out max dex bonus with defender II and any possible items that would allow me to raise the cap on the shield + armor.

Sorry if I sound confusing, but i'm at a loss to try and role this guy, hopefully some experienced pally's can help me with this build.

just to recap:

-high AC (near max)
- mediocre dps
-sword and board
-WF as race.
- good saves
- high Cha.


last note:

in order to facilitate an overall good build, I would be willing to go fleshie if it means my build would benefit greatly (i.e. dwarf with an axe, elf using longswords.)

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