Channeler of Fear- Channel-focused, fear-stacking undeath cleric of Ugathoa build! (Looking for ideas)


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Anyway, got a crazy idea for a cleric build focused on channeling, fear and necromancy...roughly outlined below..

Race: Human
Class: Cleric
Deity: Urgathoa
Traits: Bully or Princess or Extremely Fashionable, Sacred Conduit
Domains: Death(Undead sub-domain because enervation), War
Variant Channeling: Disease Portfolio (sicken effect)

Starting Ability Scores:
(Assuming 20 point buy)

Strength: 8
Dexterity: 10
Constitution: 14
Intelligence: 12
Wisdom: 16
Charisma: 16

(two level-up points into wisdom, three into charisma. Items used to boost both further.)

Feats:
1st: Improved Channel
Human: Selective Channel
War Domain: Weapon Focus (Scythe)
3rd: Shatter Resolve
5th: Command Undead
7th: Dazzling Display
9th: Quick Channel
11th: Quicken Spell
13th: Spell Focus (Necromancy)
15th: Undead Master
17th: Extra Channel
19th: Open

So, the basic idea behind this build is to make an offensive channeler who can use fear effects to both aid in battlefield control while also debufing the opponent's saves into oblivion by stacking the sickened condition from the vairent channeling for the disease portfolio and the shaken condition from shatter resolve. shaken gives them -2 to saves. Sickened gives them an additional -2, which in total means a -4 to saves, or essentially, +4 to your spell DCs which will be enough to offset the fact your casting stat will be lower then a non-channeling focused caster cleric. In addition, with the ability to quick channel and use dazzling display, you can quickly and easily turn that shaken condition into frightened, making for some excellent battlefield control alla fear stacking. In addition, you have the death domain, you channel negative, have desecrate and have the undead master feat so you can be a fine minionmaster necromancer if you want to be. You won't have the same numbers of undead somebody who went for spell perfection(Animate Dead) will, but you have command undead, desecrate and undead master, so your numbers won't be terrible....and since your a cleric or Urgathoa, Necromancer is thematically fitting extra role to have.

If anybody has any ideas/advice for this build I would be grateful!

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