Dirge of doom bard with an auditory perform. Think silent hill scary children with ventriloquism subvocal creepy sounds and music.
Or inquisitor for the usual intimidating build ala children of the corn style.
I think that Anti-paladins always win in terms of the scariest character possible due to aura of cowardice. An anti-paladin is apparently so scary that even creatures without the capability of fear are afraid of them. Oozes? Terrified out of their non-existent minds. Zombies, skeletons, and other non-sentient undead? Outa there. Adamantine golem? Considered its legs freshly oiled. Paladins? Pansies before the terrible, terrible aura of an anti-paladin. It's hard to get scarier than a being who can terrify a being incapable of fear.
Haha nice, I don't usually think about the APs so good catch.
I think that Anti-paladins always win in terms of the scariest character possible due to aura of cowardice. An anti-paladin is apparently so scary that even creatures without the capability of fear are afraid of them. Oozes? Terrified out of their non-existent minds. Zombies, skeletons, and other non-sentient undead? Outa there. Adamantine golem? Considered its legs freshly oiled. Paladins? Pansies before the terrible, terrible aura of an anti-paladin. It's hard to get scarier than a being who can terrify a being incapable of fear.
While this is very true, the OP mentioned this being a Pathfinder Society character, so it might not be feasible. Which is too bad, because the antipaladin is just extremely cool.
As was mentioned before, Inquisitors and dirge bards have some very good options for intimidating. On that note, make sure you pick up "blistering invective", which allows you to intimidate all opponents within 30 ft.
Bruising Intellect gives you the option of being scary if you want an int based character.
actually 4 levels of anti-paladin would be pretty neat for some build that relies on fear effects.
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A shame it's for PFS;Dreamscarred Press's Dread class would be perfect.
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2SPOOKY antipaladin
(AP 5 / FGT 3 / AP +12)
* - dayborn alt racial feature taken
starting stats:
str 17, dex 12, con 14, int 10, wis 8, cha 16
endgame stats:
str 32, dex 18, con 20, int 14, wis 14, cha 26
+5 str (level), +6 str/dex/con/wis/cha (belt/headband), +4 int (robe of runes), +4 str/cha (book/wish)
traits: unnatural presence / magical knack (antipaladin)
feats:
1 - EWP (fauchard or nodachi)
3 - Power Attack
5 - Weapon Focus (fauchard or nodachi)
6 - Cornugon Smash*
7 - Dazzling Display, Shatter defenses*
9 - Violent Display
11 - Intimidating Prowess
13 - Dreadful Carnage
15 - Dazing Assault
17 - ??? (up to you)
19 - ??? (up to you)
* - fighter bonus feats
endgame gear:
+5 cruel (1) conductive (2) unholy (2) reliquary (+250g) [polearm of choice]
+5 dueling (1) defending (1) guardian (1) spiked gauntlet
+5 heavy fortification (5) buckler
+5 dastard (1) unrighteous (-) warding (1) mithral fullplate or hellknight plate
free demoralize checks against his target anytime he power attacks, free checks against everyone within 30ft on a kill, and can use dazzling display as an immediate action on a 15-20 crit. wield a +X cruel polearm (with keen via fiendish boon) for maximum effect, and have a spiked gauntlet on his buckler-hand for melee threatening.
endgame intimidate will be sitting around +42 before non-stat items (23 ranks/class skill, +8 cha, +11 str), and will work on pretty much anything not mindless or a paladin.
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DO NOTE THAT YOU CAN ALSO DO THIS AS A BLOODRAGER (just swap the AP levels for BR ones)
you'd need to adjust the gear accordingly (+X furious courageous cruel [polearm of choice], for example), but it is an otherwise painless transition undead bloodline's abilities give you even more opportunities to strike fear into people. crossblooded undead/arcane (with some finagling) lets you grab the fear undead abilities and the free buffs from arcane when entering a bloodrage. very riastradh-esque motif.
isn't anti-paladin banned from PFS? due to evil
isn't anti-paladin banned from PFS? due to evil
which is why (at least in the build i posted) there's a note that it works pretty much the same way as a bloodrager (same stat spreads and everything).
Why use a fauchard or nodachi?
high crit range with reach, i know fauchard is 18-20 x2, but im unsure of nodachi's.
largely unneeded (any polearm + buckler will work with phalanx soldier), but the original build of mine that spawned that one had a few critical feats, iirc (bleeding or staggering i think?).
Sorcerer (undead bloodline),and witch,(of the graveyard variety) don't know if it's PFS legal or not,but sure seems like it'd be fun. Oh yeah, make the Witch your base class.
I'd suggest throwing in 1 lvl of Thug Archetype Rogue; whenever it demoralizes with Intimidate, the shaken condition increases by 1. If it would increase to 4 or more rounds, you can make it Frightened for 1 instead.
If you combine this with the Enforcer feat, a Sap, and a Str of 14, you can arrange for possible Frightening with every melee attack on your turn.
Dual-Cursed Oracle, Wasting and Tongues Curse. Your guy is literally rotting away, and speaking abyssal/infernal when fighting guys, along with forcing them to re-roll attacks that end up failing.
"Hit it!"
"I'm trying!"
Everyone's suggestions does remind me of an important statement:
What kind of Scary are you going for?
The Mentalist Mage who overwhelms enemies with magic?
The visual horror, who is vile, but not necessarily imposing fear effects?
The serial killer, who uses combat and violence to shatter enemies resolve?
And add to that, any combinations of the above?
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Maybe a bad touch character with enforcer and madness domain? Probably Three levels in thug archetype and now you can punch stuff, shaken them for several rounds and force saves vs confusion. Hit them again and they run away in fear. Grab domain strike or dilequescent gloves and you have a decent core for a little girl whose mere touch' causes insanity and shows horrifying visions.
EWP (fauchard or nodachi)Nodachi is martial. if you don't care about reach, you can pick up something else at that level instead.
ah, i thought eastern weapons required EWP unless you were in an eastern campaign or playing classes that specifically get them.
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1 level rogue, thug archtype for the frightening ability.
2 levels cavalier, order of the cockatrice for the braggart ability.
2 levels barbarian for the intimidating glare rage power
Skill focus (intimidate)
Intimidating prowes if your strength is high enough. (It probably is with rage.)
Bully trait to raise your intimidate a bit more.
As many ranks in intimidate as possible.
There are probably more things you can add, but this is what I got for a level 5 oneshot playing a human. A half-orc has a +2 bonus on Intimidate, and there is a trait that would give you a +4 bonus to disguise as a human*, so if you're not dead set on dhampir, she could still appear as a creepy girl. I don't know if all of this is allowed in Pathfinder Society though.
*Technically, Half-orcs count as humans and orcs so they shouldn't get the penalty on disguise checks for being a different race, I think.
A fun idea is a wizard with bruising intellect and dazzling display. Especially at low levels, where saving spells, even for a full-round action is good.
1 level rogue, thug archtype for the frightening ability.
2 levels cavalier, order of the cockatrice for the braggart ability.
2 levels barbarian for the intimidating glare rage power
Skill focus (intimidate)
Intimidating prowes if your strength is high enough. (It probably is with rage.)
Bully trait to raise your intimidate a bit more.
As many ranks in intimidate as possible.There are probably more things you can add, but this is what I got for a level 5 oneshot playing a human. A half-orc has a +2 bonus on Intimidate, and there is a trait that would give you a +4 bonus to disguise as a human*, so if you're not dead set on dhampir, she could still appear as a creepy girl. I don't know if all of this is allowed in Pathfinder Society though.
*Technically, Half-orcs count as humans and orcs so they shouldn't get the penalty on disguise checks for being a different race, I think.
dont forget the unnatural presence trait, it lets you intimidate beasts and vermin
I saw a nasty build for bloodrager on here somewhere (my memory and search-fu both fail) based around the undead bloodline's no-save frightful charge. If you can find it, it seemed pretty effective at scaring the hell out of one target at a time.