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Without divine power, I feel paladins are fairly weak. Wardens and Fighters are fairly strong defenders with their respective book though.
And really, you'll buy all those PDFs but not pay your electric bill?
@Ershin: I think any background story is fine, as long as you don't try to use it to get extra bonuses (i.e. you still start at level 1 with 100g like the rest of us, your military training doesn't give you anything extra). Coming up with a reason of why you left the army might be a good idea (were you just a mercenary they decided to not pay any more? Was your term of service over? Or were you disgraced and discharged for some reason?)
Why would I attempt to use a background to get bonuses (apart from the backgrounds in PHB2 and the Forgotten Realms books that give bonuses, but I've never really been comfortable using those, so...)? I was simply considering a reason as to why the character would join the party, in this case it would be a prior attachment to the cause at hand, particularly (if not part of the military) if she were to be part of the town's regular guards heeding the call to go forth and protect her people. Mechanically, I'm still mulling between Bard and Warlord, slightly leaning towards the Bardic route. {Fake Edit: Links to the character creation thread seem to have been posted while I was typing. Perhaps this is no longer the place for this post?}