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Erik Vale wrote:

Twisting Fear, you deal your reduced sneak attack damage to all you shake/etc, applies 1/round.

Rogue Talent-Combat Talent: You can select combat Feats.
Go Weapon Focus, Dazelling Display. You now hurt everyone within 30ft as a standard action at level 1.
Human, Weapon Focus, Dazelling Display, Hero's Display, Performance Combatent. You can now get that damage out once per round while attacking. This is avaliable at level 3, or level 4 if you're not human and take Rogue Talent-Combat Talent.
However, at level 3 you've got at best a 3+Cha/20 chance of activating it unless you activate Dazelling display instead, and why not?
You may also want to grab Mask of Virtue and Souless Gaze, that way you can fear stack with Intimidate. You could go Fiendskin instead, not great, but it does mean you could light yourself on fire as a scare tactic.

So, now anything that attacks you as a group of little things needs to be immune to fear, or you can blow through it without swinging your blade at them.

I mean, the damage isn't enormous at that point (looking at 2d4 at level 3), but yeah, frighten 'em all until they faint!

Sure, not massive, but Twisting Fear means that they are too scared to speak, so it can be a perfectly silent display that just happens to frighten up to 17 people into wheezing terror... However, what needs to be asked, is if that 'too scared to speak' is just flavour text, or if it could prevent casters from casting spells with vocal components.

Twisting Fear, you deal your reduced sneak attack damage to all you shake/etc, applies 1/round.

Rogue Talent-Combat Talent: You can select combat Feats.
Go Weapon Focus, Dazelling Display. You now hurt everyone within 30ft as a standard action at level 1.
Human, Weapon Focus, Dazelling Display, Hero's Display, Performance Combatent. You can now get that damage out once per round while attacking. This is avaliable at level 3, or level 4 if you're not human and take Rogue Talent-Combat Talent.
However, at level 3 you've got at best a 3+Cha/20 chance of activating it unless you activate Dazelling display instead, and why not?

You may also want to grab Mask of Virtue and Souless Gaze, that way you can fear stack with Intimidate. This works really well because Twisting Fear states that they're too scared to speak while fleeing, so you can silently take down entire groups at once, or silently send them running for the hills.

You could go Fiendskin instead of Mask of Virtue, not great, but it does mean you could light yourself on fire as a scare tactic/Light source.

So, now anything that attacks you as a group of little things needs to be immune to fear, or you can blow through it without swinging your blade at them.