Pathfinder question
Aug. 8th, 2011 02:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captain_slinkyFor all my RPG-playing (specifically "Pathfinder") friends, a question.
SO here's my idea for my highly Charismatic Paladin ("cute but stupid").
Using the skills of "Intimidate" and "Diplomacy" in battle in order to force my opponents in to helping me in battle. Story-wise, the way it would go down is this: I point at an opponent and I yell "YOU! SURRENDER OR DIE!" If they don't surrender, I kill 'em. If they DO say the surrender, then I tell them "WELL MET! Now PROVE YOUR SINCERITY! Help me kill these brigands!" If the opponent turns and starts helping me kill his friends, GREAT! If he doesn't I then call him a liar and a heretic and I kill 'em. Either way, I then turn to a new opponent and say "How about YOU? Do YOU surrender?" and repeat the process over and over again till everybody is either a minion or dead.
Numbers-wise, I think it would go down like this: Using my Intimidate to Demoralize an opponent is a standard action and makes them "Shaken" (character takes a –2 penalty on attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks), which leaves him just a bit more open to my very diplomatic request that he join my righteous side in battle (I just have to get my opponent from "Hostile" to "Indifferent" before I make a request of them such as this).
If this seems doable, then I'm going to start putting skill ranks in to "Persuasive". Because that will give me ANOTHER +2 to my Diplomacy roll :)
Whadaya think?
SO here's my idea for my highly Charismatic Paladin ("cute but stupid").
Using the skills of "Intimidate" and "Diplomacy" in battle in order to force my opponents in to helping me in battle. Story-wise, the way it would go down is this: I point at an opponent and I yell "YOU! SURRENDER OR DIE!" If they don't surrender, I kill 'em. If they DO say the surrender, then I tell them "WELL MET! Now PROVE YOUR SINCERITY! Help me kill these brigands!" If the opponent turns and starts helping me kill his friends, GREAT! If he doesn't I then call him a liar and a heretic and I kill 'em. Either way, I then turn to a new opponent and say "How about YOU? Do YOU surrender?" and repeat the process over and over again till everybody is either a minion or dead.
Numbers-wise, I think it would go down like this: Using my Intimidate to Demoralize an opponent is a standard action and makes them "Shaken" (character takes a –2 penalty on attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks), which leaves him just a bit more open to my very diplomatic request that he join my righteous side in battle (I just have to get my opponent from "Hostile" to "Indifferent" before I make a request of them such as this).
If this seems doable, then I'm going to start putting skill ranks in to "Persuasive". Because that will give me ANOTHER +2 to my Diplomacy roll :)
Whadaya think?
