game was shortened

[megan2]

So, game ended early on account of someone not feeling well.  Also, my character kind of died.  She probably saved the rest of the party in doing so, and they don't have to pay to resurrect her as I am making a new character.  This is going to be my first fighter, so any suggestions are welcome (as usual).

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[billisaninja]

Yes! You rocked out so hard that you saved the party and died! Very nice. Ok, so fighter, eh? Do you want to do as much damage as you can? (My suggestion.) Do you want to work an intelligent fighter? (One who can trip and disarm opponents and sacrifice offense for defense--attack vs. AC) Or do you want to focus mainly on defense with high armor?

Also, what level are you starting this character out at? I would also recomend playing a human race since fighters are feat machines and humans get that bonus feat.

[megan2]

My character is a human, and she is starting out at level one. I want to do damage....lots of damage ; )

She isn't very intelligent. What is this tripping and disarming of which you speak? Do I have to get special feats for it?

[billisaninja]

Yeah, to trip and disarm better than normal you need the feats called Improved Trip and Improved Disarm. No big deal. It's just the path of feats all connected to the prerequisite feat Combat Expertise.

If you wanna' do damage, I recommend maxing out your Strength and wielding a great sword. Then put your next highest stat in Con. Did you roll up scores already?

For feats, I would definitely recommend Weapon Focus (Great Sword), Power Attack, and Cleave. Instead of Cleave, if you can get your DM to allow you to take a feat from the Complete Warrior 3.5 book, there's a feat called Powerful Charge that I've seen be amazing at low levels.

So there's my two cents. I always get really excited when drawing up new characters. So, let me know how she turns out!