"I totally know what that monster is!" --Help me build a functional bard nerd using Pageant of the Peacock

[Shorticus]

Step 1: Gnome or Half-elf.
Step 2: Bard.
Step 3: Pageant of the Peacock.
Step 4: Favored class bonus for bonus bardic performance rounds.
Step 5: Glibness.

Now, help me weaponize this.

I realize this could be used to pretty much auto-identify every monster, item (with Spellcraft + Detect Magic), and the value of anything we find (yay, Appraise!). I could use it for finishing Craft checks in downtime. Heck, with Precise Treatment I could use it for Treat Deadly Wounds / poisons / diseases while camping, right? (Because I make Heal usable with INT, and I make INT usable with Bluff.) And if I'm playing an Archivist bard, I can use it to disable traps as if I were the party rogue (and auto-pass all the knowledge checks for that).

What else is viable with this sort of silliness? 1 round for 10 minutes of "I know everything" would be great for APs with big dungeons, I reckon, or for Emerald Spire.

EDIT: An alternative build idea? Paladin, Oath of the People's Council. Witty Repartee trait. Unsanctioned Knowledge (grab Glibness). The trpuble here is paladins develop spells less quickly, and people would look funny at a paladin with maximized bluff.

[Reduxist]

Have you thought about taking the Ashavic Dancer prestige class and two uses of Expanded Versatility? Then you can maximize your dance skills and use it for everything.

[Sensten]

For bluff specific stuff:
Bewildering Koan uses bluff and is crazy good. Dip for a Ki Pool or take one of these feats: Perfect Style or Secret of Steel-Shattering Spirit. Get some wyroot (or find another way to recover ki).

Taunt if you want to demoralize, coupled with Dazzling Display feat or Blistering Invective spell (or pre-errata Antagonize). Babble Peddler feat has some interesting possibilities too

For Knowledge specific stuff:
There aren't a lot of good ways to weaponize knowledge.
Know Weakness, Kathleen Scholar, and Cunning Killer can add a little damage for identifying enemies (but not much). Kirin Style>Kirin Strike is...problematic. And Exploit Lore, while decent, requires and Inquisitor dip and 11 BAB

One thing I'd look into are the occult rituals (they require a bunch of knowledge checks). Some of them can do some interesting things.

For high CHA:
Besides dipping into various classes for extra options (Swashbuckler is a strong option for melee, Sleuth investigator for skills, or Mysterious Stranger Gunslinger for ranged) or CHA to everything (via Oracles, Paladins, Noble Scion feat), consider this:

Take the Divine fighting technique Desna's Shooting Star (either as a feat or from Versatile Performance). Lets you use CHA to attack and damage.

And if you really wanted to get cute, use one of the Advanced Versatile Performance options to treat your bard level as 1/2 fighter for light blades and then take Martial Versatility (Desna's Shooting Star) to use CHA for all light blades, including rapiers.

For general 'turn the party into monsters' goodness:
Flagbearer feat + Banner of Ancient Kings. Extra +3 hit/damage for everyone, no action required.

[Deadmanwalking]

For the record, Glibness doesn't help with Pageant of the Peacock's uses on Int-based checks. It specifies that it only adds to Bluff checks 'to convince another of the truth of your words', not all Bluff checks.

This still works and works fine, but Glibness does not add to your Int-based checks while doing it.

[Slim Jim]

I am liking the look of this an awful lot.

[LoudKid]

Don't forget your items:
Ioun Stone
Body
Shoulders
Eyes
Wrist
Ring
Rod
Face
and mundane clothes

Most of these are circumstance bonuses, too (those all stack as long as they are from different sources).

[VRMH]

Crafting doesn't suddenly become significantly better (or worse) using the Bluff skill, but there's something perversely delightful about bluffing your way through making a Golem.

[Reduxist]

VRMH wrote:

Crafting doesn't suddenly become significantly better (or worse) using the Bluff skill, but there's something perversely delightful about bluffing your way through making a Golem.

I just got the best mental exchange of this happening:

“It’s alive!!!”
“Okay, but how?”
“¯\_(ツ)_/¯”