Recent content by mgrinshpon

I've been toying around with a Paladin/Bard mutliclass character in a campaign and found him to be shockingly effective. The Paladin/Bard is a jack of all trades of the highest caliber. He can diplomacy, he can fight, he can tank, he can heal, and he can buff. He trades off some early level...

I've been playing a bard for about a year now and finally reached level 12 a few days back. I chose a Bard of Valor since we have 8 people in the party, I didn't need to be effective, and watched Zorro the day before having to make the decision. If I could go back and be a Bard of Lore, I would...

"If you have both the spellcasting class feature and the pact magic class feature..., you can use the spell slots you gain from the pact magic feature to cast spells you know... from classes with the spellcasting feature." Page 164, 5E PHB, under multiclassing. Works both RAW and RAI. The thing...

Yes! How did I not see those? I'm not crazy about Find Steed when I have Awaken. Revive does look pretty sweet, though. EDIT: Revive is not on the bard spell list and thus instantly worse than Raise Dead or Resurrection. Bards have between 4 and 6 flex slots for other schools' spells making it...

Bards only get 22 spells, or maybe 24 if you go into the College of Lore. Since that's a paltry amount compared to the Wizards 44+, what do you consider the must-have bard spells? I'm going College of Valor Bard. The ones that really popped out are: Cure Wounds (1): self explanatory Faerie...