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ShadowedSavage
2019-08-24, 02:37 AM
moved this over to another board

TheFamilarRaven
2019-08-24, 02:55 PM
Welcome to the forum! Just so you're aware, there is a specific subforum for Pathfinder related posts. I mod may come and move this to the appropriate subforum soon enough.

To answer your question. If you want to be as intimidating as possible and want to play an evil aligned character and a Hellknight, I'd recommend the following.

2 levels of anti-paladin (tyrant)
-This let's you be Lawful evil so you qualify for the Hellknight prestige class. Insinuator lets your smite affect a wider variety of targets (anyone not matching a chosen alignment vs only good creatures), however, it's also noticeably weaker than the base smite ability, and since you're not sticking with anti-paladin all the way to 20, you might as well not have that ability in the first place as it won't scale with HellKnight. Plus Hellknight gets their own smite ability.

However, as a tyrant you get access to Aura of cowardice, which provides a better penalty to resist fear effects vs aura of ego. Also, aura of cowardice removes a creature's immunity to fear. This is 100% vital to make an intimidation build work.

From this point on, you could stick with Anti-paladin until level 5. Or multiclass into fighter, cavalier, bloodrager. What ever class suits your fancy. Fighter would net you some bonus feats so you're not so feat starved from all the intimidation feats you'll need.

Speaking of which: Pick up these feats

Power Attack (1)
Hurtful (human) basically a free attack when combined with cornugon smash.
Intimidating prowess (3)
Soulless Gaze (5)
Fiendskin (7) this now lets you inflict the Frightened condition with your demoralize checks.
Cornugon Smash (9)