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Hey all!

I am new to posting, so if this is in the wrong section I apologize.

But on to my question. I am wanting to draft up a campaign to be run sometime in the future, with the idea behind the campaign being the players are severely outmatched at every turn, and have to rely on a lot of cunning and role play to achieve their goals. I am likely going to have a handful of small house rules to help achieve this, and rely on low amounts of loot drops to help pressure them, and make it feel very challenging. I have already talked to a few of the potential players and they seem excited for it, as it will be a change of pace from our normal games.

What I am looking for is ideas for encounters that could be used, tips on how to pull off this type of challenging environment, ways to encourage skill use in creative ways, and generally anything else that could be used to help heighten the thematic of this campaign. Any and all ideas are welcome.

Thanks!

P.S. If anyone needs any clarification, feel free to ask. I am in the early stages of planning/brainstorming though, so I don't have much yet.

So, I have made a handful of characters, and on a whim, I made a family tree of those characters. I got a little carried away, and ended up with my first character (an Ifrit Ranger) being the lover of one of my other characters (an Aasimar Ninja). Well, they had a child and at the moment that child is a Human Samurai.

I was wondering how realistic of an outcome that is, and if so, if it would make sense appearance wise to have him show some traits of his heritage, such as slightly elven features (his father was a half-elf ifrit) and unnatural eye color. I am thinking about playing this character as my first PFS character and so would like to know if that kind of thing would fly with most GMs there. Mechanically he is fully Human, straight core rules, but appearance wise he is clearly not a full blood human. I am familiar with the Racial Heritage feat, but I don't want any mechanical differences, just appearance. So I am talking pure flavor with this.

Also, as a additional question on that, my home GM allowed my Samurai to age at a decreased rate (at the rate of his parents) due to his heritage. I understand that having him age different is way out there, and am planning on not including that part in PFS, but is there any chance I could pull it off? I think it would be great flavor if so.