I'd be interested in thoughts on this build:
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Human 20th level Lotus Geisha
Human favored class option for Bards, Focused Study
Attributes: (20 point buy)
STR - 10
DEX - 14
CON - 14
INT - 14
WIS - 8
CHA - 15 (+2 racial bonus, +1 at 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th & 20th)
Traits:
Reactionary
Carefully Hidden
Feats:
1st - Lingering Performance
1st - Skill Focus: Perform (Comedy)
1st - Spell Focus: Enchantment
3rd - Weapon Focus: Fighting Fan
5th - Dazzling Display
5th - Greater Spell Focus: Enchantment
7th - Penetrating Spell
8th - Skill Focus: Knowledge (Arcana)
9th - Eldritch Heritage: Arcane Bond (Arcane Bloodline)
11th - Discordant Voice
13th - Improved Eldritch Heritage: New Arcana (Arcane Bloodline)
15th - Quicken Spell
16th - Skill Focus: Perform (Comedy)
17th - Improved Eldritch Heritage: School Power - Enchantment (Arcane Bloodline)
19th - Healer's Touch
Skills: (9 ranks/level)
Perform: Comedy 1/level (Bluff, Intimidate @ 2nd)
Perform: Dance 1/level (Acrobatics, Fly @10th )
Perform: Oratory 1/level (Diplomacy, Sense Motive @ 6th)
Knowledge: Local 1/level
Knowledge: Nobility 1/level
Knowledge: Arcana 1/level
Use Magic Device 1/level
Perception 1/level
Stealth 1/level
The character should have a very wide selection of spells available to her and have plenty of skills to play around with. I'm torn on Perception and Stealth, wondering if I should sprinkle in a variety of other Knowledge skills instead - I just know how often those skills are used.
Inspire Courage + Discordant Voice + Good Hope + Dazzling Display should make for some battle-tipping buffs & de-buffs.
Thoughts?
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Rather than smattering the K. Skills, I would consider sacrificing a second level spell slot to learn the Pageant of the Peacock masterpiece (Perform Act or Perform Dance 4 ranks).
Effect: By gracefully weaving your body through subtle forms and postures, you can convince others of your breeding, eloquence, and refinement. For the duration of the effect, you gain a +4 circumstance bonus on Bluff checks, and may attempt a Bluff check in place of an intelligence check or intelligence-based skill checks. the subtle changes in your movements also confer a +4 circumstantial bonus on Disguise checks to appear to be someone of a higher station (an aristocrat, merchant prince, or even a queen.
1 bardic performance round per 10 minutes of the effects duration.
Source: Dragonslayer's Handbook.
Rather than smattering the K. Skills, I would consider sacrificing a second level spell slot to learn the Pageant of the Peacock masterpiece (Perform Act or Perform Dance 4 ranks).
Effect: By gracefully weaving your body through subtle forms and postures, you can convince others of your breeding, eloquence, and refinement. For the duration of the effect, you gain a +4 circumstance bonus on Bluff checks, and may attempt a Bluff check in place of an intelligence check or intelligence-based skill checks. the subtle changes in your movements also confer a +4 circumstantial bonus on Disguise checks to appear to be someone of a higher station (an aristocrat, merchant prince, or even a queen.
1 bardic performance round per 10 minutes of the effects duration.
Source: Dragonslayer's Handbook.
I haven't really looked at the Masterpieces, but that's an interesting thought.
Is this for PFS or why do you have spell focus instead of scribe scroll? Apart from that the build looks good.
The fighting fan is a very stylish choice and because of that I'm a little reluctant to suggest something else but with the double chained kama you could threaten without being adjacent to an enemy, you can drop one side to have a hand free for casting and pick it up with a free action and it is a monk weapon, too. But it looks more martial and I could well see this keeping you from using it.
Is this for PFS or why do you have spell focus instead of scribe scroll? Apart from that the build looks good.
The fighting fan is a very stylish choice and because of that I'm a little reluctant to suggest something else but with the double chained kama you could threaten without being adjacent to an enemy, you can drop one side to have a hand free for casting and pick it up with a free action and it is a monk weapon, too. But it looks more martial and I could well see this keeping you from using it.
The Spell Focus is a free feat from the archetype, as is Greater Spell Focus at 5th level (Lotus Geisha vs. Geisha).
The kama is a mechanically nice choice but I'm pretty sure its not one of the archetype's proficiencies, and it is a bit more martial than the concept allows for.
Also, there's one tiny error - the Skill Focus: Comedy at 16th level should be Skill Focus: Oration.
Ah, sorry I missed the lotus part and thought it was the geisha. That one would get scribe scroll instead and gets proficiency in any one monk weapon.
Sorry for this misunderstanding.