u/Cheetahs_never_win

Critique my seductress

I wanted to create a Vampire NPC Big Bad that likes to do "her business" in "her office," which is doing the tango on the ballroom floor, in the open, where everyone can see her, but still be none the wiser.

Human Vampire, Mesmerist 1 (Autohypnotist, Vexing Trickster), Bard 1, Sleepless Detective 1, Witch (Seducer) 13, Mythic 1.

Vampire Feats:

Alertness, Dodge, Improved Initiative, Lightning Reflexes, Toughness

Skill Feats:

Alertness (thru familiar), Deceitful, Deceitful (Mythic)

Magical Feats:

Conceal Spell, Improved Conceal Spell

Class-related Feats:

Extra Hex, Improved Familiar (Rakshasa, Raktavarna), Accursed Hex, Amplified Hex, Split Hex

Combat Feat:

Osyluth Guile

Witch Options:

Patron: Enchantment

Hexes:

Cackle (from Cackling Hag's Blouse) (disguised so as not to be loose-fitting or grotesque)

Charm (mandated by Seducer)

Evil Eye (Note: does not stack with Mesmerist's Hypnotic Stare when applied to will saves, but can be used to decrease ability checks)

Misfortune or Peacebound

Slumber

Major Hexes:

False Hospitality (may be swappable, since bard level means she can cast glibness from scrolls)

Weather Control (also swappable, but is there for flavor when a gal has to go out for a day in the town)

Bard Options:

Pageant of the Peacock

So, here's where it gets ugly for the players.

When she dances, she can use Pageant of the Peacock, she can substitute Bluff for any Int based check and Int based skill check.

Skills she can substitute Bluff for include:

Appraise, Craft (alchemy), Diplomacy, Knowledge checks, Linguistics, Perception, Sense Motive, Spellcraft, and Use Magic Device.

Her bonus to bluff is:

16 ranks

+3 class skill

+12 Cha Mod (maxed out charisma for epic point buy + human = 20, +4 vampire, +6 headband, +4 leveling

+1 from Mesmerist

+8 racial bonus from vampire

+6 from deceitful/mythic

+5 competence from Rod of Beguiling

+20 from glibness

+4 from the dance itself

Can use mythic power to nat 20.

Which means a 95, but also gets to add Int (+7) for those Sleepless Detective Skills, so probably 102 for Int based skills and skills turned into Int-modified skills. ...I think.

Doesn't include additional bonuses, such as morale bonuses, assistance from the vampire music crew (if I add mastermind template to vampire), if any of them are bards...

But it seems like the skill checks options are all better than trying to use Witch Hexes and Vampire Dominate, which a save would make sure any gig is up.

Any thoughts on different approaches to get players to flirt with the dark side?

Edit to add:

Forgot Pragmatic Activator and Bruising Intellect, adding UMD and Intimidate, which was Cha, now Int, now Bluffed (Cha again).

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u/Cheetahs_never_win — 5 days ago
▲ 257 r/horizon

It wasn't until I finished HFW that I realized...

>!Part of Ted Faro's whole spiel of being a psychotic, despotic narcissist and why he chose to live and die in a pyramid... the tomb of an emperor figure... is because his name is homophonic with "Pharaoh." Do you think he might have been a better person if he didn't have a name that lends itself to (false) prophecy? Likewise, I fully expect he ran around his little compound in an egyptian themed bathrobe all the time.!<

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u/Cheetahs_never_win — 3 months ago