Dragon Magazine [3.0] Rangers & Bards

Melkor · Aug 26, 2003

Did any of the Dragon magazines during the run of 3.0 contain alternate rules for Rangers & Bards ?

RedCliff · Aug 26, 2003

Issue #301 has an article on masterpiece performances, which give different kinds of bonuses when you use them. For example, The Blackworm Wiggle is a comedic dance that works like the bardic fascinate ability, but causes a -8 penalty to Spot and Listen checks, and The Blood Tears of Corellon grant a +15 competance bonus to Perform skill checks, but only when playing to elven and half-elven audiences.

There's also rules for creating masterpieces.

Issue #292 doesn't have a lot of ranger information in it per se, but it contains a few ranger-oriented prestige classes, and one article detailing a few of these also touches on how dwarves, halflings, and half-orcs view the ranger class.

Hope that helps.

Melkor · Aug 26, 2003

Thanks for the info.

Were there any WoTC website updates to the 3.0 Ranger or Bard classes ? I'm wondering if anything 'official' came out regarding either class in 3.5.

I know Monte Cook did some stuff, but I was just wanting to know if they had an 'official' treatment after the 3.0 PHB came out.