Shadowdancer Build?


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Hello everyone, I'm looking for a viable Shadowdancer build.
I've been playing my character, Danté Lost, for a little over a year now and I've always been fascinated with with the PrC Shadowdancer. Danté has withstood many changes as he started out as a dual wielding, human, CG fighter who later gained the Shadowdancer PrC. After half a year he changed and is now a Tiefling, CE, Zen Archer, again with Shadowdancer levels. Now, again, I have a plan for him and that's creating an evil syndicate with him as the head of it. This will mostly happen behind the scenes, so need him to be as good as someone running an organisation can be.

What exactly am I looking for? A build which mostly focusses on Charisma based skills and everything associated with a Kingpin (like the Black market Connections Rogue Talent for example), but is still viable in combat.

Stats that can't be changed:
-Race: Tiefling (I just enjoy the idea of everyone liking an unnerving Tiefling and being able to cast Darkness 3 times a day comes in very handy for a Shadowdancer).
-Allignment: CE
-Feat: Vile Leadership
-Trait: Wicked Leader
-I want to be a Shadowdancer at least at lvl 7.
-My character has to be lvl 15

What I need:
-25 point buy Ability Scores. Obviously Charisma needs to be high, and I'd like it have a lot of skill points.
-Class(es) for lvl 1-6
-Any good Archetype(s) for those Class(es)
-Feats, and a lot of them
-Traits
-Rogue Talents
-Items

I want to be mainly Stealth, Bluff, Diplomacy and Intimidate focussed, together with as many possible ways to escape Death, since Danté is mortally afraid of dying.

Possible feats I want are Hellcat Stealth, Quickened Spell-like Ability and Grave-Risen (I already qualify for this one). There are way more, so I'd like it if I'm able to take up lots of feats.

Also I have to say that my Cohort (a Changeling Witch called Neopolitan), is very adept in the Enchantment department, so I have no need to focus on that myself.

Possible classes I've considered are: Anti-Paladin, (Unchained) Rogue, Fighter, Monk and Bard. I'm also looking for specific Archetypes if they may help me.

Everything Paizo is fair game, but no 3rd Party stuff.

Scarab Sages

An unchained Phantom Thief would make a very good entry into shadowdancer.


I think you should go unchained monk. You can get the dodge, mobility and combat reflexes for free by 6th level. Unchained Monk also gives you a respectable amount of skill points and a lot of free monk abilities.

Given that Vile Leadership is your 7th level feat, you have your 1st, 3rd, and 5th level feat to get whatever you want. If you pick up deadly aim and power attack and weapon finesse (unarmed strike), you should make for a good switch hitter using shuriken and unarmed strikes.

Stats: Str(14), Dex(16+2), Con(14), Int(10+2), Wis(14), Chr(10-2).

Skills: Diplomacy (max), Sense Motive (max), Perception (max), Intimidate (max), whatever else.

Traits: Maybe a trait that makes Diplomacy a class skill assuming there is one.

All I have off the top of my head.


Extra Shadow Jump and Flexible Shadow Jump are nice feats from Blood of Shadows.

The Shadow Jumper's Tunic from Dirty Tactics Toolbox is a great item.


Gisher wrote:

Extra Shadow Jump and Flexible Shadow Jump are nice feats from Blood of Shadows.

The Shadow Jumper's Tunic from Dirty Tactics Toolbox is a great item.

Can I have a link to these, because I can't find them.


The Shadow Jumper's Tunic can be found here.

The two feats probably aren't available online yet since Blood of Shadows just came out recently.

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