Percy Jackson Campaign Help

[SenseiTrashCan]

Greetings. Long time lurker, first time poster. Hopefully I put this in the right place and sorry if I ramble a bit. So, anyway, onto the details. My group will be starting a Percy Jackson style campaign in a couple of weeks, and I need help coming up with character ideas (Mostly the personality bits, crunch and numbers should be fine). We already have a Divine Hunter Paladin (the son of Apollo) and a Mystic from DSP (the son of Hephaestus). I'm mostly just having an issue coming up with ideas that would thematically fit certain gods that would be viable in combat and fun to role play. For reference, I normally create 4-5 characters before a campaign and pick between them what would be the most appropriate and fun. Anyway, I already have an air kineticist vmc oracle son of Zeus lined up. Need help with ideas for the personalities (and interesting build ideas) for children of Hecate, Hades, and any other god not already mentioned. Most first and third party is allowed, but rogue/unchaind rogue are off the table (I play too many of those).

Tldr: Need help coming up with thematic ideas for children of the Greek Gods.

[Val'bryn2]

I actually came up with basic builds for some of the Percy Jackson characters a while back, the easiest way to do so is generally by using Eldritch Heritage, most of them are some variety of fighter.

[SenseiTrashCan]

Which bloodline would you suggest for a child of Hades?

[Val'bryn2]

Depends on what aspect they follow. It's been a while since I read them, but each of them seemed to embody a certain, shall we say, domain, of the deities, so one who had the control over shadows like Nico had would probably be shadow bloodline. In fact, I'd probably put him as a Bone Oracle with the Shadow Bloodline, maybe into Shadowdancer

Undead can also be a fairly good fit.

[SenseiTrashCan]

Hmm, that's an interesting idea. I'll have to look into it. Thank you for your help.

[Val'bryn2]

No problem, I might go back and reread the books. Are you doing 1st set or 2nd set of books? Another thing to maybe look into is variant multiclassing, with the Oracle/sorcerer class as the second one

[SenseiTrashCan]

We're only using the books as a inspiration for the setting. Basically, every major mythology has a camp somewhere in the U.S., not just Greeks and Romans, and they're all pretty aware of each other. This'll be our second campaign with this setting, the first being Norse.

[Weirdo]

Hecate screams witch, though if you wanted something a little more off-beat you could also try druid (consider Urushiol, Mooncaller, and herbalism as a nature bond), poisoner alchemist (not sure what the best archetypes are for this) or herbalist alchemist (official or Paizo Fans United), lunar oracle, or maybe something on the ghost/necromancy angle (undead sorcerer, spiritualist, Necroccultist or Haunt Collector Occultist?) though that would overlap with options for Hades. I would pick Arcane as Hecate's bloodline. And check out Threefold Aspect.

For Hades you have death, the underground, and wealth. So basically anything necromantic would fit. A Silksworn Occultist with the Necromancy implement school would hit both the death & wealth notes. Geokineticist would also be appropriate. If you're looking at bloodlines I'd take Bedrock (wildblooded from Deep Earth), or Undead.

[SenseiTrashCan]

I didn't even know those druid archetypes exist, they look neat. That spell will definitely see use (if I go for Hecate), and great idea pointing out Silksworn. I can't believe I didn't think of that. Thank you.

[Shiroi]

I bet you can manage a mesmerist daughter of Aphrodite, shooting sultry looks to melt the hearts of men.

Hermes would be anything mobility based, a monk who focuses on trip and disarm weapons and such to faceplant and otherwise 'prank' the enemies in a large area would be pretty cool.

Hades would be a cool chance to the (spiritualist?) The one with the pseudo-eidolon. Any necromancer could be fine, as well. You could go an alternative route and build more towards Pluto, using Earth kineticist vmc something undead themed that gives speak with dead or grants a familiar (re-skinned cat is greusome but thematic).

Any caster can be of Hecate, but I like the spheres of power stuff. The incanter in particular is -only- pure magic, the rawest form of caster you can get in a system that has great robust options with all day staying power.

Hepheastus can easily do any class using the Ifrit race (if you don't want the burning hands you can get the forge-hardened bonus to crafting).

[SenseiTrashCan]

I did consider mesmerist of Aphrodite, but I'm just not fond of the class. The monk idea could work. Personally, if I were using Spheres for Hecate, I'd go Triple Goddess Hedge Witch, but this sadly isn't the campaign to do spheres stuff (various reasons). And Hephaestus is off the table sadly, though a good idea.

[Dave Justus]

Artemis would relate well to any archer character.

Ares has a modern perception as the god of war, but really he is the good of but he was more just unrestrained violence, barbarian or if you want some magic, blood rager would be a good fit.

Athena was the good of wisdom, but one big aspect of that was being a god of war from an intelligent point of view. Fighter, particularly child of Acavna and Amaznen archetype seems appropriate.

Of course with the right mystery an oracle can work for just about any.

[Weirdo]

I think Athena's intelligent warfare angle would be represented less by magic and more by having a Tactical element, eg Cavalier, Tactician Fighter, Holy Tactician Paladin, or maybe Exemplar Brawler. If spells are desired Tactical Leader Inquisitor seems appropriate - especially with Athena's association with Justice/Judgment. She also has an arts/crafting/invention angle that could fit well with a crafting-focused build (Spell Sage Wizard?) or something like Scavenger Investigator.

SenseiTrashCan, are you considering deities other than Hecate and Hades?

[SenseiTrashCan]

Sorry for the late reply, we just had the first session a few hours ago. Settled on a Changeling Witch (Daughter of Hecate). The group loves her so far.
Weirdo: I was honestly considering any god that would've been fun to roleplay, so long as I could mechanically back up powers. Hecate and Hades were just examples at the time. (Honestly my biggest problem was figuring out the roleplaying part, though that's been fixed)
Thank you all again everyone.