In a campaign I am trying to write I have an NPC I want the PCs to interact with though out. I want her to be a moderate/high CR because though I expect the PCs to interact with her early, I want her to be a challenge towards the end of the game. My idea for her is she works for/is owned by a Prince of Hell, and that she is a 'spy'. In the game I want her to convince the PCs to help her bring down slave traders because she was 'captured and beaten' when she is actually getting the slavers to pick up certain people, none realizing that she is controlling the show. She then gets everyone taken back to Hell, and the PCs will be fed miss information that will hopefully lead them to find a seer that the prince is after. Her plan is to get the PCs to look for the seer, and if they find her first she will retrieve them all.
So anyways, I wanted a kind of spy/double agent. I don't want her to be evil, more neutral and trying to find a way out of Hell, making the best out of a bad situation I guess. But I want the PCs to think she may be evil, but perhaps redeemable (if they consider it). I was thinking she should be able to alter her appearance, perhaps giving her a limited version of alter self as a spell like ability or in an item? Maybe there are three appearances shw can take on, her, her as a human, her as an Aasimar?
I'm looking for ideas on classes/prestige classes. I was thinking of making her a Tiefling rogue/sorcerer, but am not stuck at all to that. Any other ideas would be appreciated.
you can make her a ninja and ki point focused, if you get forgotten trick you will be able to do everything you just described and then some! the ki point focused ninja is CHA based so you will get a good diplomacy and bluff check as well which will help convince your players.
The ninja can create shadow clones, become invisible as a swift action, suddenly disguise herself as a swift action, throw smoke bombs to cover her retreat, poison bomb to...well...poison, she can use fast stealth and she can use any rogue trick as well! Her light steps ability in INCREDIBLY useful for infiltration and the like.
I'm not sure what you mean by moderate CR but at level 10 you get access to master tricks which blow the previous trick list out of the water. I'll not go into to much detail but you can find ways to polish up your build by using this guide (all credit goes to Jb200)
hope this helps!
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I like all those idea, thanks very much! I was thinking infiltration, bluff, diplomacy, etc. I also wanted her to be dex based rather than strength.