I'm currently playing in a heavy roll playing Dragonlance game as a Factotum and while I am still level 1 I must say I love the class. This is a non-optimized game; what I like to do is start from a non-optimized base and then try to optimize the concept. So the concept is that my father was a knight of solamnia (LG knightly organization) that basically had a kender fetish. I am his son. He wanted me to follow in his footsteps but due to intense racial predjudice I failed. As most kender do I then bounced from one thing to the next.
LG Half-Kender Factotum 1
Str 15, Dex 13, Con 15, Int 17, Wis 11, Cha 13
Feat: Mounted Combat
Skills: Bluff 1 rank, Craft (Tinkering) 1 rank, Decipher Script 1 Rank, Diplomacy 4 ranks, Handle Animal 1 Rank, Knowledge Arcana, architecture and engineering, history, and religion 1 rank, Listen 4 ranks, Spot 4 ranks, Ride 4 ranks, sense motive 4 ranks, spellcraft 4 ranks, use magic device 4 ranks
The feat was chosen due to my knightly 'background' and won't be a complete waste. I found out after I made the character that the game will involve magical items called dragonlances which can only be used by lawful good characters (and apparently lances are more useful on horseback). However that is probably ten levels away.
So besides our favorite feat Font of Inspiration; what feats should I grab? (I plan on Factotum 20)
I was thinking:
Combat Expertise -> Improved Trip -> Curling Wave Strike (stormwrack)
Wild Cohort -> Mounted Combat Feats
Knowledge Devotion (Problamatic I don't worship Gillean; but I could start) -> craft magic arms and armor
Constant Guardian? Chosen Foe? (Both drow of underdark)
Other people in party (Elf Rogue going rogue 10/swashbuckler 10 using the feat that stacks rogue and swashbuckling, Afflicted Kender Nightstalker, Gnome Wizard, and half-elf duskblade)
Since the party is not optimized we often are forced to use teamwork tactics in battle. Myself and the rogue delay so we can move into flanking together. The wizard mostly cast sleep and enlarge person. We have no healing and no tank. (The nightstalker is a poorman's healer; races of ansalon is where the class is)
Any have any good optimized builds if you take into account the heavy roleplaying setting of Dragonlance (No iajitsu, no psionics; besides that we use all books)