With my friends we are preparing to start RoTR module, we me as DM. I am a bit of newbie when it comes to tabletop rpgs, as I have more background DMing pure storytelling settings with some dice help, rather than full fledged system-like ones. But!! Thats not the point. As at first we agreed to do some one shots before main dish to get us going and just use the PCs from it to what I've agreed. But now my friends are a bit of... Lost when it comes to character building from mechanical perspective and asked me for help, when I am not that better than them, even after all that reading. And i know that if you dont plan well in mechanical games things are going to bite you in the ass soner or later. So maybe lets start with some backstory to give you some feel on characters and ideas:

Elizabeth Aldori- adopted child of some swordlord lady. She was born in Absalom, but never had to know her real parents. Rised on streets she was a child of wit and quick hands. Brave but somewhat naive and overconfident in her skills one day she tried to pickpocket wrong person... And she would have gotten out if it, if not some god damn guards! She hadn't time to run, so she started a play of "ohh my lady you dropped that" etc., while sweating as hell. But she was still brave lad, keeping eye for any escape and only willing to buy herself some time, when...well something unpredictable happend. Lady rather than push her of got on with the story. Before she realised she was freenof guards but not that free in fact... The lady took some intrest in her, took her to tovern feed talked and even gave place to sleep, but... Our heroine at that point was to suspicious and ran from this strange women, laughing at her kindness but the felling stuck with her. Days gone and she started to forget about whole thing when she came in argument with thugs of local crime fellow. And to be honest her standing wasnt to good. Leta picture for yourself:9 or 10yr old against 3 or 4 teenagers/adults. But rather then fleeing she stppd her ground. She was protecting her friend (sorry if that sounds weird but I am no good at writting and I try to keep it short). Not suprisingly she would have been smashed and probably hurt in more than one way but when first hit landed on her head someone step in. The very same lady she tried to pickpocket! As you can imagine fight was short and kinda bloody, but after all she stuck with her savior; she had debt to pay as she thought at the time , but in fact was amazed and well... Intrested, when that lady fellow offered that he can train her.. probably. If she promised not to steal anymore and change. Years passed and now she is young adventurer. This brave and bit of impulsive but good hearted type. Loves to brawl, duel and do crazy stuff, and is quite intelligent and charming, but somewhat lacks common sense when it comes to danger and consequences.

Here I thought about swordlord archetype of fighter with few lvl dip to rogue perhaps? Dex oriented fellow. Ohh and we are using epic standard array so equivalent of 25pointa buy.

Second lad is aasimar-muse touched, inquisitor of Shelyn. Also an orphan, found on the steps of temple in some basket, left by her mother for them to care. From a young age she was person of great faith and affiniy to her goddess. She even was taught to be paladin, but her calling was more severe. She had visions, strange omens... And was not that good at following strict rules and code of conduct. She would have given her life for her patron in blink of an eye but still wasnt that good material for saint knight. Also not that much about preaching as she belived actions meant more than words, and ends justified means she was spotted by an old agent of the goddess and taught the ways of her order; much diffrent than that of priest and paladinhood. And it seemed that was it: gifts of her goddess flow to her and natural affinity to trickery and planning paid off. But also her visions strenghtened; unable to sleep soundly, always somewhat vigilliant as if some darkness was to devour all beauty and light if she closed her eyes. Waking with the smell of burning petals filling her lungs and heat on her skin as if she stood in fire. Some time later she finished her training and set off; following calling of Eternal rose.

Here i thought about some dex/charisma based inquiaitor archetype, preferably with chariama spell casting. Kind of face of the team and bit of more skilled fellow.

Lastle we have GMPc to fill caster role. A pure wizard but he is more about spells and I've already found a lot of advice in old threads so I'll omit that one.

So now any ideas about feats, classes and attribute distribution??? I will be mpwt gratefull for any help and ideas beffiting lines of that character as I want for this adventures to go as smoothly as possible. Thanks in advance!!! PS: sorry for my grammar, but Engliah is not my native language. If something sounds funny or is not understandable just say :3