
You should start by figuring out what character you want to play, then figure out a class that works with that. You don't get any feats, or wealth, or stats to boost your other side, which means that classes which don't require lots of resources are at a huge advantage. It's more like adding another class progression to your existing character.

The thing about Gestalt, is that it's not really combining two characters. That's just my 2cp.I'm not bound to it, I just kind of thought it fit the jack of all trades type thing, but I could go Marshal for the extra auras, that could work.

Most of what you're wanting to do, that is know the local people and know other noble houses, can be accomplished with two skills Knowledge (Local) and Knowledge (Local - whatever area you're in).

I'm not super up to speed on Factotum and how it functions, but IIRC it's all about applying your Int in various different ways to effect you, your party, and your surroudings right? Have you considered Bard/Marshal? It lacks the extra skills that Factotum would have granted you, but it also brings you to only needing a single ability score, Charisma, and augments your daily uses of Bardic music well by giving you differet 24/7 auras that you can project.īecause Bard already covers every knowledge skill as well as all of the necessary social skills, I feel like Factotum is just more of the same and the usefulness is reduced for that. Out of curiosity, are you bound to the concept of Bard/Factotum? I ask primarily because it makes you slightly more MAD, simply needing Int and Cha to feed each of those classes.
