One of my players PC has allowed the demon lord of the Midnight Isles to grant her a gift as described in Noctycula's stats. During the battle with Baphomet she summoned her so now this offer me the chance to develop a bit this idea exposed in some issues of Wrath of the Righteous about Noctycula desiring to become a goddess.
After talking with the player we decided it could be nice she rejoins the party as an anti-paladin, but altering the class enough for make it less evil oriented and more chaos oriented. However I would like some advice or suggestions so the changes made to that alternate class makes it too unbalance or too hostile to the rest of the party members.
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Well, Nocticula is the Succubus Queen, so an anti-paladin of her could go for the seduction angle rather than pure physical violence.
Sexual violence will/could creep out the players more than just the physical kind, though, so that's a tricky prospect to handle.
"You've been happily married for how long? Well, I'll put a stop to that!"
You could always use the Oathbound Paladin's Oath of Celibacy in reverse, giving her bonuses on social skills or +1 to Compulsion DCs, and grant a bonus spell like Unnatural Lust.
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I would actually suggest embracing the non-sex 2/3rds of Nocticula's themes—darkness and assassination. Those seem to fit an antipaladin quite well. Especially if the character is being groomed not to assassinate fellow PCs, but is in fact being groomed to fight demons instead, which is also one of Nocticula's themes.
Don't worry, OP, you don't have to insert a "y" in Nocticula's name to make her more edgy, she already is the Queen of Succubi. :p
Otherwise James suggestion sounds extremely feasible. Although having an Anti-Paladin of Sexyness sounds about right for Nocticula. ;)
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Why do I have this sudden mental image of Tim Curry from Rocky Horror Picture Show strutting around in leather and singing "I'm too sexy for my armor, too sexy for my clothes..." ;)
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Long story short, the player's character is a female aasimar paladin of Shelyn which ended seduced by Nocticula. The queen of succubi basically used her interest into arts for get access to the paladin, managing to have a "moment of intimacy" from which gave a boon to the PC.
During the battle with Baphomet I informed to the player she could summon Nocticula for help them kill the Lord of Minotaurs for once and all, so she did it and after the battled ended just described her being "kidnapped" by Nocticula.
Not convinced by the default outcome of such blasphemous act, got the idea of Nocticula turning this paladin of Shelyn into her champion after the goddess forsake her for her sin.
Following the advice of James Jacobs I made an anti-paladin archetype which is basically only playable with CN characters, it can smite good, evil and law and which powers are associated with the domains of the Queen of Succubus. Lust is still present but is minor aspect of this archetype, granting just bonuses into diplomacy and bluffing.
Midnight Blade (Anti-paladin archetype)
Defender of freedom: Midnight Blades focus their purpose to protect the outcast, not caring if these are evil or good, their main concern is the prevail of freedom. Therefore a Midnight Blade can only be CN, CE or CG.
Aura of Chaos (Ex):
Detect Law (Ex):
-Smite Good, Evil and Law (Su): As in the anti-paladin and paladin same ability but with the exception it must be choose first which alignment affect.
-The Lady's favor (Su): A Midnight Blade gains a bonus to her bluff, sense motive and diplomacy skill equal to her Charisma bonus when dealing with sentient beings which could feel attracted to her.
-Midnight Blessing (Su): A level 1 a Midnight Blade can do sneak attacks as the rogue class and gains rogue talents in the same progression.
-Aura of Freedom (Su): At level 3 the Midnight Blade can radiate the palpably hate towards oppression of her mistress. Allies under the influence of this aura have a +4 to any save against spells which threat mobility or could trap them. At level 13 this kind of spells are dispelled if cast inside the area of influence of the aura and the caster fails a DC equal to 15+level of the Midnight Blade+Charisma and Wis bonus.
-Blessed by Shadows (Ex): The midnight blade is recognized enough by her mistress she gains permanent true seeing dealing against creatures conceal in supernatural darkness and gaining a +4 on perception checks for detect anybody hidden in shadows or natural darkness.
-Channel Midnight's Will (Su): A Midnight Blade reaches level 4 it gains the supernatural ability to channel positive, negative or an alternate channeling associated with the portfolio of Nocticula. However, she must decide which kind of energy channel during a day after doing the proper prayers in the morning. Once chosen it can be changed only the next morning and is also necessary to perform the prayers to her mistress.
-Spells: A Midnight Blade at level 4 can cast a small number of divine spells from the anti-paladin and paladin spells list and spells from the Magus spell lit.
-Servants of Midnight: At level 5 a Midnight Blade can summon once per month 1d2 incubus, succubus or shadow demons (CE, CN) or 1d2 Brijidine, Lillend or Lyriaken (CN,CG) to help her. The summoned outsiders aren't really serving the Midnight Blade and she must perform diplomacy checks to convince them to stay if something makes them decide to leave the prime material plane.
-The Music of Midnight: At level 8 The Midnight blade is blessed by Nocticula with the knowledge of a musical masterpiece. The Midnight Blade must choose which masterpiece and it counts as an additional feat. The Midnight Blade can spend a feat to learn a new masterpiece onward.
-Kisses from the darkness: At level 14 when using a crossbow for sneak attacks, the Midnight Blade can bless the bolts so they gain the bane property against the target as well as any aligned related trait for the main purpose to overcome damage reduction.
-The Mistress favorite: At level 17 the Midnight blade's gains the benefits of Nocticula's Profane Ascension. If the Midnight Blade already haves it then she gains an additional DR 15/Law.
-Champion of the outcast: When attacking a lawful outsider, if the strikes deals damage said foe suffers the effects of banishment. In case of attacking a non outsider who is lawful and confirming a critical hit, the Midnight Blade can plane shift him into the Shadow plane or make him suffer the effects of Imprisonment.