I need some ideas/advice on where to go with the character I'm currently running; he's a shapeshifter with a diplomatic focus; he's a human with 5 levels of druid and this weekend just achieved his 10th level of shifter. He has a feat (from the Swashbuckling Adventures setting) giving him bluff and sense motive as class skills. He's focused on maxing out his diplomacy, bluff, and sense motive scores and keeping his charisma as his highest ability; the idea is that he developed shifting to allow him to infiltrate courts (he was born a noble, but his family was killed and he was smuggled out by a ranger employed by his father and was raised by druids; he believes the man who killed his family was employed by one of his father's noble rivals) and continues to focus on his diplomatic abilities because he's confidant his shifting will keep him alive without martial training.
This has worked out well so far, but I'm not certain where to go with the character now that he's finished his prestige class. He could go back to gaining druid levels, but he's not a very devout druid; he pays lip service to Mielikki (I chose her as his deity because she doesn't enforce the oath against using other armor/weapons, which he has to do if he's immitating someone who would be using those things; he never really uses weapons in serious combat, so it doesn't affect much else) and assists her followers, but druidism isn't very important to him. This also makes most druid prestige classes a bad idea, and the only exceptions I've found (like, IIRC, Mongoose's Noble Druid) require more spellcasting than I have. I'm thinking of putting together my own prestige class based on the Insinuator (a prestige class for doppelgangers found in Mongoose's Ultimate Prestige Classes) and the Demagogue (from Oathbound), but I wanted to see if any of you had ideas on where I should go with this. We are planning on taking this game into epic levels eventually, so unless someone has an idea for the epic progression of the shifter class, something with a decent/obvious epic progression would be nice.
For reference, the other feats I have are Alertness, Endurance, Natural Spell, Blindsight, and the feat from Savage Species which reduces the time needed to shift (I can't recall the name at the moment and I'm at work so I can't look at my character sheet). I still have the feat from 15th level unused. I have high ranks in the diplomatic skills I mentioned earlier, as well as spot, listen, concentration, use magic device (gained from an oathbound prestige race). Any ideas?
This has worked out well so far, but I'm not certain where to go with the character now that he's finished his prestige class. He could go back to gaining druid levels, but he's not a very devout druid; he pays lip service to Mielikki (I chose her as his deity because she doesn't enforce the oath against using other armor/weapons, which he has to do if he's immitating someone who would be using those things; he never really uses weapons in serious combat, so it doesn't affect much else) and assists her followers, but druidism isn't very important to him. This also makes most druid prestige classes a bad idea, and the only exceptions I've found (like, IIRC, Mongoose's Noble Druid) require more spellcasting than I have. I'm thinking of putting together my own prestige class based on the Insinuator (a prestige class for doppelgangers found in Mongoose's Ultimate Prestige Classes) and the Demagogue (from Oathbound), but I wanted to see if any of you had ideas on where I should go with this. We are planning on taking this game into epic levels eventually, so unless someone has an idea for the epic progression of the shifter class, something with a decent/obvious epic progression would be nice.
For reference, the other feats I have are Alertness, Endurance, Natural Spell, Blindsight, and the feat from Savage Species which reduces the time needed to shift (I can't recall the name at the moment and I'm at work so I can't look at my character sheet). I still have the feat from 15th level unused. I have high ranks in the diplomatic skills I mentioned earlier, as well as spot, listen, concentration, use magic device (gained from an oathbound prestige race). Any ideas?
