So, new campaign, new character to make, new challenge for me.
This time I'll try to keep a "diary" of what I try and what I end up (hopefully, if I don't give up halfway).
All Paizo's Pathfinder books + 3.5 Dragon Compendium.
All Wizard's 3.5 books.
No Dragon, no Wizard's website.
If something exists on both sides, usually the Pathfinder side is what gets used. 3.5 ACF that didn't end up in a PF archetype can be used on Pathfinder classes if they still have the class ability to trade away.
No templates, no overly weird races (not that being a pink outsider frog-man would have helped anyway).
3.5 Races get an additional +2 to a stat of DM choice. Whatever requires a Concentration roll gets moved to a different skill of DM choice. d4 HD goes up to d6 and d6 MIGHT get up to d8, on a case by case basis.
Nothing much definitive yet, I'll update if I know more.
Cleric w/ Prestige Paladin dip going for Divine Abjurant Champion, a mix of melee-ing, heals and buffs
Conjurer Wizard (mostly summoner, dunno about the specific build)
"Normal" Rogue, lots of attacks, lots of d6, lots of damage, lots of skill, no magic
Some kind of ranged dps?
PF Alchemist (support?)
The target is to make a good damage dealer with enough utility both in and out of combat to be relevant as something other than a glorified slapstick.
As a reference on the damage part I plan on using a not that crappy rogue 20 doing its thing with d8 sneaks and the sniping googles (or whatever they're called, the ones that give +2 damage to each sneak dice). There actually is a rogue way better than that in the party, but I'm not really aiming for top damage, just being comparable. For simplicity since I just need a ballpark value, I'll just consider full round, no misses.
lvl 5: 2x 1d4+3d8 (no goggles yet) Dam: 8-56, avg: 32
lvl 10: 4x 1d4+5d8+10 Dam: 64-216, avg: 140
lvl 15: 6x 1d4+8d8+16 Dam: 150-486, avg: 327
lvl 20: 6x 1d4+10d8+20 Dam: 186-606, avg: 405
The ideas I plan to give a shot on using:
1. Iaijutsu Focus + Warblade/Swordsage, possibly 5-8 levels on Iaijutsu Master. Single attack and using a katana
2. Iaijutsu Focus + Magus, using spellstrike to delivery everything in one hit.
3. Good'ol King of Smack, using some full-caster Psionic class.
4. Like above, but Tashalatora.
5. Give up and play some ranged caster/dps or truly give up and play another batman wizard like always
Apparently I'm a bit rusty and pulling out of the hat something that feels cool, is strong and useful (and not a frankenstain of dips) is hard
Of course suggestions are welcome, both of things to use for those and new ideas. Meanwhile I'll try to consider and post a tentative build for each to see how it turns out. Unluckily I don't have that much free time lately so I expect a day or two between post with some meat and builds in them :|