I had a swashtigator planned that might work. Go HALF ORC and take the STUDENT OF PHILOSOPHY background trait and the OVERLOOKED MASTERMIND alternate racial trait.
Some half-orcs use half-orcs’ brutish stereotypes to their advantage, causing others to underestimate their intelligence and scheming. Such half-orcs gain a +2 racial bonus on Bluff, Diplomacy, and Sense Motive checks. This bonus increases to +4 against other humanoids. They also receive a +2 racial bonus on Bluff checks to feign ignorance and Sense Motive checks to intercept secret messages, and this stacks with the above bonus. This racial trait replaces intimidating, orc ferocity, and weapon familiarity.
Now you're and INT-based party-face.
... Or you could just go bard, they are pretty good at this kind of thing.
With the team you have? I'd say a buffer bard (http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qm1h?The-guide-to-the-buffer-bard) or a sorcerer would be your best bet.
I'm running age of worms with a similar team (buffer bard, mystic theurge/arcane hierophant sorcerer/druid with a beefed up spinosaurus companion and Nagaji paladin) and it is HIGHLY effective, EDV for the AC and paladin is over 250 at level 13.
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Just note that the guide to the buffer bard forgot the dervish sikhe item which adds another +1 to inspire courage.
So at level 8 with an aasimar build you give out +4 base inspire courage, +2 with feats and items, so +6, and +2 from flagbearer + banner of ancient kings, for a total of +8 to attack and damage.
Have your druid be summon focused just for the lolz and then laugh as his swarm of eagles at level 3 ravages those bandits.
Alright! Character is a noble driven out of her home because she is a changeling. Fits in with the tiefling. Is also a Nature Oracle, which fits in with Druid.
Oracle
* Nature Mystery
Lvl 1: Cha replaces Dex for AC, Ref saves
Lvl 1 Feat
* Noble Scion of War
- +2 Knowledge Nobility, Cha for Initiative
Charisma has now replaced all of dex. Have an 18 charisma? You now have 18 dex too.
Lvl 3 Mystery? Maw and Claw. You now have 3x natural attacks. And at lvl 8 it increases to 4x natural attacks. Use divine favor and fate’s favored to pump up your damage. Take mother’s gift for a further +1 Hit and Damage. Be an Annis Hag for another +1 damage.
Then use your next Mystery to get an animal companion as like a Druid.
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Tiefling fighter’s needs someone to fight with? You’ve got 4 attacks without any penalties to go with him.
Druid needs a friend for his pet? Well you have one too. So your 3 man group now has 5 stat blocks.
Party needs healing or buffing? You got that.
Party needs high Cha? Oh boy you got that.
And finally your kingdom needs a ruler. And you are a legit noble.
Refer to my earlier post. Honestly it might seem underwhelming but the buffer bard is pretty much the strongest build I ever saw in play when coupled with a summoner. Plus the massive bonuses will make you highly effective at any weapon you're proficient with.
A bard will help the druid out a lot. You can buff the druid, his animal companion, and all the allies he can summon--and the fighter, too. You can act as another healer. You can be the party face and the skill monkey. You can Use Magic Device to get access to magic the party will lack access to, specifically clerical and wizardly magic.
That does mean you'll lose spell levels and inspire courage levels as well as not being able to use flagbearer though. All of that for the ability to maybe trip someone, an ability that will stop being useful around chapter 4 of kingmaker.
I'd go with a page of spell knowledge (grease) and high charisma instead, about as potent, more at lower levels.
I played a Bloodrager/Paladin in Kingmaker that went on to be a swell ruler. He had the Destined Bloodline, though the Verdant Bloodline introduced in Ultimate Wilderness looks really good/flavorful, especially for a Kingmaker game, to the point that I probably would have taken it over Destined. The Holy Guide Paladin Archetype from the Advanced Class Guide also looks like a really cool fit for Kingmaker.
I played a Bloodrager/Paladin in Kingmaker that went on to be a swell ruler. He had the Destined Bloodline, though the Verdant Bloodline introduced in Ultimate Wilderness looks really good/flavorful, especially for a Kingmaker game, to the point that I probably would have taken it over Destined. The Holy Guide Paladin Archetype from the Advanced Class Guide also looks like a really cool fit for Kingmaker.
Wasn't the Verdant Bloodline in the Advanced Players Guide? Or is there a different new one?
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The Verdant Bloodline in APG is for Sorcerers. The one in Ultimate Wilderness is for Bloodragers. They don't/can't use the exact same bloodlines.
More importantly, what roles in the kingdom are you all planning to fill? That's what will actually make or break your game. Pick a role and build the character around that. When I played that AP, we all sat down and decided who would fill what roll, then made characters that would fill that role best while still being effective in an adventuring group. I was going to be the king, so I made a cavalier. My councilor was a witch. The High Priest was obviously a cleric. The spymaster and royal assassin were the same person - the rogue. The monk ended up as the grand diplomat.
we had 6 pcs.
2 were sorcerors and one was a bard. So very charismatic rulership
When we played Kingmaker, we didn't really know how it was going to be initially. I GMed part 1, and then a different GM did part 2. We didn't get too far into part 3 before it quit.
The cavalier/fighter made himself king.
My dwarf barbarian/magus was the court mage or something.
We had a witch/rogue/wannabe arcane trickster, a ranger archer, an occasional alchemist, an NPC cleric, and maybe a sorcerer. I think we geased a quickling into being our assassin, which was surprisingly effective.
The Verdant Bloodline in APG is for Sorcerers. The one in Ultimate Wilderness is for Bloodragers. They don't/can't use the exact same bloodlines.
Yes, I know that they can't use the same bloodlines, but I skimmed and missed it was a Bloodrager.
The part I bolded caught my eye because one of my characters for Kingmaker was a Verdant Bloodline Sorcerer, thanks for pointing out the BR part though.
I played an Oracle of the Life Mystery in Kingmaker and he was awesome. He kept everyone alive and buffed while they took out the bad guys. He had a few offensive spells and abilities that he could use and he was a positive energy undead destroying machine.
I highly recommend at least one high charisma party member if you are using the world building rules, especially the ones presented in the adventure rather than Ultimate Campaign. I filled the ruler roll and married a fey NPC and we the most charismatic ruling couple ever and our kingdom was rewarded because of it.
Can I suggest you an alternative or is it too late?
I'm currently playing the Kingmaker campaign as my party face/leader.
My DM having advised that diplomacy could be an important part of the game, I looked to the campaign trait and found the "Noble: Medvyed" one that gives a bonus to diplomacy toward feys.Point is that I seen during the game that bonus is quite useful: the PC are several times needed to interact with feys, making that the party face has several opportunities to use it.
However, on the rolistic side, the feys are also inclined to listen people who are close to nature, which is not the case of most of charisma-based classes.
- So here the choice I made: a Sorcerer with the Sylvan Bloodline.
As a mutation of the fey blood, the very nature of the character push my DM to use lower diplomacy DC when dealing with the feys than usual.
I'm almost always seen as a kind of cousin by them, and am rather convincing when I say that I have the nature/fey interest in mind while developing our kingdom.You have currently a druid in your party... but the druid is not the one who are going to do the diplomacy checks, and this druid is already a divine spellcaster while the oracle is another divine spellcaster.
So I thought you could have a bit of interest for my alternative :)
The problem with kingmaker is that you could have 0 ranks in diplomacy and be the best ruler ever, since the ruler just adds his charisma mod to kingdom stats.
This makes hyper focused charisma builds such as oracle and sorcerer the best (so your build was good, but the diplomacy part is irrelevant to ruling) at being a regent, closely followed by charisma based semi casters like bard and summoner. Then finally we have the offstat classes like paladin, cavalier, bloodrager, swashbucklers and so on.
Since the rule has the most impact on the stats, you want someone who will start at 18 base, +2 racial, and will put every leveling point in there as well as enhancement items and inherent books. This isn't the case for off stats builds.
You sir are pretty much stuck, if you want to be the best ruler ever, with oracle/sorcerer/bard/summoner. And even summoner is iffy...
If not there's some magus builds based off charisma too, and perhaps a dragon monk, but monks tend to be mad, I don't think a heavy focus on cha, even if monk abiliies are keyed off it, would work.
For the kingdom building it is necessary to have a King with a good charisma. Obviously, the higher the better, but that certainly doesn't mean you can't succeed without starting with a CHR of 20. After a certain point, no matter how good your scores are, the bonuses from the kingdom itself eclipses them.
I would say that any character with a 16 CHR is good enough.
With that in mind, you need to figure out what your combat role for the party will be. I subscribe to the school of thought that their are really on 3 combat roles in the game (with multiple methods of accomplishing them) Striker, Controller and Support. Ideally you want at least one PC that will focus on each of these, although having a secondary focus for when either your main job isn't needed or you can't accomplish it for some reason is a good plan.
The fighter is almost certainly a striker. A druid can be any of those roles, so only knowing the class doesn't tell us much. Their is a decent bet though that the druid is a controller/striker, summon natures ally actually makes a great control spell and the animal companion, and possibly wildshaped druid are descent strikers. If that is true, then what your team needs is support.
Support is basically buffing and fixing. Bards are great at the former, and only ok at the latter. I'd certainly have at least a one cure spell known so you can at least stabilize anyone who goes down. I'd recommend against a lore warden dip, it would indeed make you more versatile (adding striking and control abilities) but at the cost of your 'main job.' I'd probably either go with an archery build (if I wanted to be a secondary striker and add ranged capability to the party) or a dazzling display build (add a bit of control) but I'd keep it just bard for sure.