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Is it a straight +4 bonus to charisma?
If so then the importance of it cannot be overstated for a sorcerer, oracle and potentially for a paladin or bard. That's a huge increase in power at very minor cost for those characters.
no it is not a +4 to cha, it's +4 to charisma for the purposes of diplomacy bluff and intimidate.
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Hold on, here's the writeup for Arshea's obedience (Chronicles of the Righteous, p.7):
Achieve sexual release by yourself or with one or more partners. Praise the most beautiful aspects of yourself and any partners aloud, and offer a prayer to Arshea while still naked. Gain a +4 sacred bonus on Charisma checks and Charisma-based skill checks* when interacting with an intelligent creature who could be sexually attracted to you.
BOONS
1: Arshea’s Charmer (Sp) disguise self 3/day, mirror image 2/day, or charm monster 1/day
2: Flawless Form (Su) Gain an armor bonus equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum +1) whenever you wear revealing clothing and no armor.
3: Liberation (Sp) You can cast freedom once per day.
*Emphasis mine.
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The Celestial Obedience Feat grants:
Obedience Achieve sexual release by yourself or with one or
more partners. Praise the most beautiful aspects of yourself
and any partners aloud, and offer a prayer to Arshea while
still naked. Gain a +4 sacred bonus on Charisma checks
and Charisma-based skill checks when interacting with an
intelligent creature who could be sexually attracted to you.
In addition, if you take the Mystery Cultist PC, you gain
Glorious Aura (Su): Starting at 2nd level, a mystery
cultist can shroud herself in a glorious aura for 1 round per
mystery cultist level. These rounds need not be consecutive.
Her features radiate with divine beauty, but the force of her
presence can be frightening to others. The mystery cultist
gains a +4 sacred bonus to her Charisma score and radiates
a 10-foot aura of terrible awe. Creatures within the aura
must succeed at a Will save (DC 10 + the mystery cultist’s
class level + the mystery cultist’s Charisma modifier) or
become frightened for 1d4 rounds. Regardless of whether
the save is successful, a creature cannot be affected by a
mystery cultist’s glorious aura more than once in 24 hours.
This is a fear effect.
as your level 2 ability from the PC.
** This PC does NOT advance spell casting at level 1. It does advance casting at level 2.
So it's an actual +4 to diplomacy checks (as well as other charisma checks), not the +2 as was suggested (plus the other abilities you can get from it of course.
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To the OP: y’know, if you’re willing to consider third-party material, the Sister of Rapture base class would be a good thematic fit for a female character trying this kind of build. It’d probably make a good mechanical fit, too, since it combines 3/4 BAB, spontaneous divine casting, good Fort and Will saves, proficiency with light armour, shields, and all martial weapons, and a class feature called “Distracting Beauty” that gives the woman in question her Charisma mod as a sacred AC bonus (when she’s (apparently) scantily-clad or nekkid, including glamoured light armour). I mean, if you’re going to go for a Cha-based character, you might as well double-down, right?
Just throwing that out there. ;-D
Be aware that diplomacy has been at least slightly nerfed in PF compared to previous editions.
Succeed- If you succeed, the character’s attitude toward you is improved by one step. For every 5 by which your check result exceeds the DC, the character’s attitude toward you increases by one additional step. A creature’s attitude cannot be shifted more than two steps up in this way, although the GM can override this rule in some situations.
It's kind of sad, to me, because it really does harm the ability of a mythical smooth-talker to charm their enemies into being friends, but I understand the game-balance reasons for the change.
In any event, I'd still call turning your hated enemy into an indifferent, "Meh, I don't really care, sure I'll talk to you." a kind of "win".
Whoa, I totally missed that!
Well, shoot. That does nerf high-end Diplomacy more than a little.
Yeah, it's a painful loss, but I understand the intent behind it. It's gotta be frustrating for a GM when the players walk up to the Tarrasque and make it their best buddy, accept the celestial template, and launch it at hell.
And then they get Asmodeus to do their laundry.
Silver Tongued Human are often adept at subtle manipulation and putting even sworn foes at ease. Humans with this trait gain a +2 bonus on Diplomacy and Bluff checks. In addition, when they use Diplomacy to shift a creature's attitude, they can shift up to three steps up rather than just two. This racial trait replaces skilled.
Sorted??
... that is a good trait. Does it actually exist in the rules?
EDIT: got it. It's an Alternate racial trait.
EDIT 2: is there a way you can get your whatever race you wanted and still somehow get that trait? That could be very useful.
