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I see much advice about optimal Inquisitor races suggest Half-orc, Half-elf and the usual Human. These are very good but there is a powerful option.
Archon-blooded Aasimar. Yes, Aasimars are good anyway, but this is especially suited.
+2 Con, +2 Wis - both vital stats.
Celestial Resistances, Darkvision, always good.
Skill boosts: Intimidate and Sense Motive - perfect.
SLA: Continual Flame - thematic and useful.
My 1st level 20 point build for Verchiel the Inquisitor is
STR 16, DEX 10, CON 14, INT 10, WIS 16, CHA 13. This could be optimised but I hate dumps and I want to use Cha for other things than just Intimidate without the Conversion Inquisition.
Stern Gaze and the standard feat choice of Intimididating Prowess gives 1st level skills of Intimidate 11 and Sense Motive 10 without min maxing. Stern Gaze of course means that this only increases massively.
The benefits of this build are that it is not a one-trick pony, other Inquisitor powers such as hitting things and spells have not been sacrificed.
For religion and domain I wanted something super good, the guy is a baby archon after all, LG. One can go for Iomedae and the very good Archon Domain if you just want to hammer the point home, but I have Chosen Shelyn for the Luck Domain powers and the Glaive favored weapon. Some Empyreal Lords also work, like Neshen and Ragathiel. Here is another advantage of the Archon Aasimar, Continual Flame. For any LG warrior you want a flaming blade, it just looks cool. You have Darkvision yourself but your friends might not. It's once a day and doesn't have that pesky 50gp component so after a week your friends and family will have it too.
I'm pretty sure it is PFS legal too. Less sure about using Continual Flame as your Day Job, although that is what any sensible Aasimar would do. Perhaps you could call it Temple work, but it mostly involves you setting up Everburning Torches in alcoves.
The major problem is feat economy. PFS for imstance, only goes up to 12th level so there are only 6 feats to play with. One has to commit to Intimidate if the feats are to be spent. All the teamwork feats will have to be the free ones.
1- Intimidating Prowess
3- Power Attack
5- Weapon Focus
7- Dazzling Display
9- Cornugon Smash
11- Free choice at last. If it isn't PFS I's be likely to get Angel Blooded then Angel Wings but then again I think looking cool is important.
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Look at Dwarf as well. Their Favored Class bonus for Inquisitor is INSANE.
Not in the rules as written, that I'm aware of, but capping them at L20 would seem like a rational house rule.
Ok wait where can I read about the different bloodlines of races? (particularly aasimars) it wasn't in the prd.
The variant heritages are from the splatbook "Blood of Angels" which isn't in the PRD. Only stuff in the hardcovers makes it to the PRD. You can find some details here: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/races/other-races/featured-races/arg-aasimar
If you are planning on playing an Aasimar I would recommend getting the book though. There's some good stuff in there.
BTW for the original poster - Arcane Strike is another feat that Aasimar immediately qualifies for because of their SLA. And yes, Archon-blooded does seem very good for an inquisitor.
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