I have a rough idea what I want to do but need some more detailed input. The basic concept is an aasimar life oracle taking angle blooded and wings in order to appear more celestial then leadership at seventh. At third tier take the divine source universal path ability then use down time rules to build a church to myself.
Alignment is NG and want to keep it that way. The party has two barbarians a paladin and a rogue. All pretty straight forward builds. Barbarians smash, paladin smites, and the rogue finds traps and backstabs.
Deepsight is good to appear more divine. As a party approachs you can, at 120 distance, say something godlike such as "Ah, I sense a group is coming to pay homage to my greatness....and the Halfling is in need of a shave!"
Any average peasant will be amazed and shower you with copper.
You could take haunted fey aspect!.. hrm no that would be appearing more gnome like.
Would some form of Hide in Plain Sight (or similar ability, such as eldritch heritage: shadow) be useful? I mean, literally disappearing in front of everyone's eyes would be impressive.
Skill Focus: Disguise
if aasimar take the halo alternate race trait.
if aasimar take the halo alternate race trait.
I would think that a knowledge:planes would reveal that he is "only" an aasimar. Impressive, and possibly worthy of worship, but hardly more so than the standard aasimar oracle.
Why would a NG character swindle people into believing she was a god? Thats kinda evil. Your damning people into following a false god.
Why would a NG character swindle people into believing she was a god? Thats kinda evil. Your damning people into following a false god.
Well, if it's a knowing deception, sure. But if the character BELIEVES he's a benevolent god, then he could very well be NG. If he's later faced with the truth and continues the deception, that might be when he starts down the road to corruption. Or he might actually be a godling on the Material Plane for any number of reasons... I don't know the game.
Plus, looking through the list of gods, there are a lot of good aligned (or at least neutral)demigods, so I suppose they are alright to worship. That is a much lower bar to start from.
And even if the character was basically mortal to begin with, there is enough precedent that he could innocently fall into delusion. Kurgess for example was originally a mortal that made a noble sacrifice, and later rose to demigodhood. The backstory says that Cayden and Desna raised him into this position, and he might possibly be their half-mortal son.
So he doesn't necessarily need to believe that he is entirely a god, but confuse his celestial heritage with divine heritage. The addition of oracle powers could be seen as further complicating the matters.
Thanks for the advice. I like the shadow bloodline idea. Also appreciate the RP advice. The way I am planning on handling it is that the character worships Sarenrae (sp) who likes everyone. At first tier he thinks of himself as something more than an oracle. Second tier will bring the idea that Sarenrae has taken a personal interest in his life. Third tier he will believe he is her avatar. Then eventually move into demigodhood. At level 20 tier 10 he will attempt to ascend as several of the gods in the pantheon did.