I had the same question thinking about making a dwarf paladin.
ND is nice but it’s not exactly a free weapon by any means. There are also a lot of alternatives that are far from impossible to acquire even as a semi-casual. With a bit of PP you can MQ the epic.
So if tree hugging Tunare doesn’t do it for ya, I’d skip it.
As for races as far as I’m concerned
Erudite: Hipster choice but is hardly rare anymore and your stats are mediocre, you’re also blind without any easy item to fix it
Human: Respectable stats. Blind.
Dwarf: Strongest stats outside of low charisma, you’ll still have strong stats even with 15pts into charisma. Males have barrel roll.
High elf: Best charisma, if you want to lull/pacify with ease and without 738383 item swaps this is the race to go with. Other races do okay though with some points into cha and don’t have crippled melee stats.
Half-elf: Nice dex but terrible wis and mediocre stats otherwise.
So in my book it’s HE for the charisma or Dwarf for the melee stats with humans being close third.
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