The Hellknight

Okay, that Intimidate build we previously made was cool, and very thematic for stealth, but what if we wanted to be out there in public and slicing people in twain to scare them?

Well, I do in fact have a build for us here.

We will be taking the Executioner Archetype, multiclass into Antipaladin with the Tyrant Archetype and take levels of the Hellknight Prestige Class. Our leveling should look like the following:

Class

Slayer (Executioner) 2/Antipaladin (Tyrant) 3/Hellknight 10/Slayer (Executioner) +5

Race

We’re going Half-Orc, putting our floating +2 into Strength.

Ability Scores

15Point-Buy

Str 19/Dex 10/Con 10/Int 10/Wis 10/Cha 12 Put everything in Strength

20Point-Buy

Str 20/Dex 10/Con 10/Int 10/Wis 10/Cha 13 Round up Charisma, then everything in Strength.

25Point-Buy

Str 20/Dex 10/Con 13/Int 10/Wis 10/Cha 14

Round up Constitution then everything else in Strength.

Traits

Take Reactionary to help our poor Initiative and Unnatural Presence to Intimidate animals and Vermin.

Favored Class Bonus

Our Constitution is low, put em in HP.

Skills

Intimidate, Acrobatics, Perception, Sense Motive, we also need Knowledge(Planes).

Feats by Level

1-Exotic Weapon Proficiency(Butchering Axe) Ranger Combat Style

2-Intimidating Prowess

3-Power Attack

5-Soulless Gaze

7-Cornugon Smash

9-Mask of Virtue

11-Weapon Focus(Butchering Axe)

13-Dazzling Display

15-Shatter Defenses

17-Furious Focus

19-Dreadful Carnage

Power Attack+Cornugon Smash+Shatter Defenses is pretty self-explanatory at this point, Soulless Gaze lets us increase the fear status on Intimidate and with our massive Strength, Intimidating Prowess is just a no-brainer.

Slayer Talents by Level

2-Ranger Combat Style

17-Painful Strike

19-Poison Use

Hellknight

As a Hellknight we get to wear Hellknight Plate which is pretty much the best armor in the game before enchantments, plus we get some neat anti-chaos bonuses and three Disciplines at the following Levels:

8-Onslaught

11-Fearsomeness

14-Call Armor

We can summon our armor to us, gain a +4 bonus to Strength for a few times a day and we can, three times per day, when we make an Intimidate to Demoralize someone, make them Frightened instead of Shaken.

Equipment

A Butchering Axe and the best medium armor you can get. Eventually we’re getting Hellknight Plate.

Final Thoughts on the Build

We can send targets panicking in less than one round and no one, no one is immune to our fear effects. Plus with a Butchering Axe we are doing stupid damage (3d6 base). Even at lvl 1 without Power Attack we deal 3d6+6/7 damage which is enough to pretty much one shot anything at this level. And this will keep being the case for a few levels between Power Attack, Studied Target(which doubles for us as Executioner vs humanoids, but admittedly lowers to 0 against others). We are super resilient with Hellknight Armor and did I say we are sending everyone cowering as part of attacking? This build is one of the strongest I have made so far weirdly enough.