Pathfinder Unchained Rogue: Trying for Face/Two handed Reach

[Gavote]

So, 20pt buy, starting at level 1, will not be exceeding lvl 6. Other party members are a monk, an incanter and a fighter. Currently planning on a Tengu with exotic weapon specialization. Currently looking at the elven branched spear and the bladed scarf. Any and all advice welcome!

[legomaster00156]

Is Path of War Expanded allowed? Because you could make use of the Polearm Dancer feat and Mithral Current on a Hidden Blade Unchained Rogue.

[exelsisxax]

If you do have path of war access, fauchard, flying blade, and longaxes and longhammers are superior to the branched spear, and usable with finesse if you use the above poster's method.

[Gavote]

Not sure if path of war is available, will check. How are these weapons superior?

I was mainly looking at the branched spear for the +2 to AoO. EDIT: that and the fact that it is finessable.

[exelsisxax]

All have superior damage, and most of them with better crit rates or multipliers, some with more weapon properties (ever-useful trip on the fauchard). If you can't finesse them, they're bad unless you're going STR for some reason, but path of war will allow you to finesse them anyway as previously mentioned.

[Gavote]

This just in RE: Path of war access...Nope.

[legomaster00156]

A shame. A STR-based Rogue rather than DEX-based might be your best bet, then. (I like to refer to that kind of build as a "thuggish Rogue".)

[Geddy2112]

The tengu exotic weapon training only covers eastern weapons, and the only one that is finessable to my knowledge is the spiked chain. However, the stock swordtraining tengu get gives the elven curved blade for a finessable weapon. If you want to do a reach and burn the feat, the branched spear is best for both reach and stacking with dex/combat reflexes.

Look into any of the rogue archtypes that replace trap sense, there are plenty for a more face style character and thug/rake are great for an intimidation build. That said, if you think the game is trap heavy keep your danger sense/trapfinding. Swashbuckler gets you a second bite at combat trick, if you wanna get another combat feat.

You will be a good face as you can learn 12 languages over the course of the campaign. Since you have that ability, consider maxing linguistics and getting the orator (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/orator) feat. The skill focus: linguistics sucks as a prereq and it won't come online till level 3, but you will be god at face by then. You will need to ask your DM if you can get the branched spear as an alt Racial trait, or take EWP at level 2 with rogue talent:combat trick.

Since you are doing dex to damage/finesse you can dump strength, but your reach weapon won't really do much damage in the meantime and you don't want to be encumbered. You obviously want great dex, con to boost your saves and overcome your con penalty, some extra INT to skillmonkey/face, wis for saves, and either dump charisma and use orator or 10 and rely on skills. So for a 20 point buy after racial mods
Str:8
Dex:20
Con:12
Int:12
Wis:12
Cha:7
Having enough ranks to max key skills will overcome your CHA penalty and still have skills to go around from the int bonus, as well as get you another language off the bat. The difference between 7 and 8 strength ensures you can actually do damage at low levels, and helps carrying capacity. You can bump charisma to 8 if you don't go the orator route to sure up saves. If not, you can boost con by 1 to lower your chance of dying, or str by 1 if carrying capacity is an issue. Carry a crossbow so you have a ranged option, which is more important early game.

Feats:
1: EWP spear or skill focus: linguistics or combat reflexes. You can use a curved blade at level 1 if you don't have the spear proficiency.
2: rogue talent-combat trick: EWP spear or combat reflexes
3: orator if you went that route, or improved initiative, maybe weapon focus/spear?
4: Rogue talent-resiliency or weapon training, maybe bleeding attack. If nobody else has it, minor magic for detect magic is pretty handy.
5: dazzling display? at this point you are basically online.

[CharonsHelper]

A shame. A STR-based Rogue rather than DEX-based might be your best bet, then. (I like to refer to that kind of build as a "thuggish Rogue".)

Why? It's an Unchained Rogue. It gets DEX to Damage at level 3 - and can get 1.5x DEX damage with a two-handed weapon.

As to this character's build - have you considered a Feint build? It's one of the most consistent ways to get SA, and with a two-handed weapon you won't be giving up any attacks with a move action at level 6. Eventually you could go for the Moonlight Stalker Feint feat combined with Greater Feint to use Feint as a swift action when you have concealment which makes them flat-footed against you for the whole round (until the beginning of your next turn, so it would include any AOOs).