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And high level benefits are not balanced against low level benefits, let alone level 1 benefits. Therefore, multiclassing under your system is severely unbalanced. QED. That's fine, but pretending that's balanced is absurd. And these points relate to balance how? Incidentally, it's not...

So your game design philosophy is "players should be massively unbalanced, people should be heavily penalized for trying to capture the essence of a concept that is outside of the game-defined "norms." Except that you gained a single 1d4+1 damage attack. As your level *fourteen* ability. And...

If you see nothing wrong with having your ability for your 14th level be "I get a CL2 Magic Missile!" then you've got more wrong with your perspective of mechanics than taste. It quite simply does not compete with alternative choices. Thus, it is significantly unbalanced. Thus, something is...

Again, if you really wanted to take advantage of an actual monster class level system in 3.5e, you need to go fix multiclassing first. I suggest following Tome of Battle's example for starters.

You don't need to. I was comparing to a bard that was more balanced against other core classes, like Wizard, Druid, Cleric, Sorcerer. Balance against THOSE classes. As is, you are not balanced against those classes at all.

You mean like a Beguiler? The specialist? Oh wait, no, the Beguiler has *more* skills than you because he has Int as a primary stat to invest in, whereas the Bard doesn't. Bummer. This is absolutely meaningless. A 3/4 BAB and a shortsword does not make you a decent fighter at all. What...

Yes. Half hit points is complete fail. Either make nonmagical healing worth a damn, or make someone *suck it up and buy a vigor wand or healing belt* already. I can't emphasize this enough. You must restore your hit points to full after every fight if you want to stay alive against a DM who...

Core, the bard is good at two things: Social interaction, and Fascinate abuse. They also have a bit of spellcasting (in a specialized field, which mainly has to do with social interaction and... the same stuff Fascinate does) and later on, he can get Otto's Irresistable Dance at a...

They specialize in whatever you want them to specialize in. If I want to make a melee bard, I grab dragonfire inspiration, song of the white raven, and some ToB levels and go to town. If I want to make a buffer bard, I grab War Weaver and Sublime Chord for 9th level spells and buffing...

Because it helps morale and sets marching pace. When they suddenly didn't have people marching in lines, they mostly got rid of the pipers, and they never used such people for skirmishes, which is what D&D is about. And those people were NPCs with a few ranks in Perform, not PC class heroes...

You know, it'd be helpful if you said something other than "I want to be effective." Seriously, it's just polite to tell people what you want when you're telling them to spend their time building your character. I can build a dragonfire TWF blender Song of the White Raven bard with 9th level...

The problem is that the flavor is completely wrong. D&D justs fails at representing bards from any literature other than that *directly based on D&D.* Seriously, go look at other examples of Bards from fiction, such as, I don't know, anything from Demyx to the Pied Piper (especially his...

Uhm... What do you think class levels are? Post-requisites? :confused: Drawing a distinction where there is no difference is a logical fallacy. Either that, or you're just stating the blatantly obvious to the point where I want to go get my "Master of the Obvious" sign XD Anyways, more...

Wait, what? I never said anything like that. I said that you could easily provide it as a racial ability without having to use classes or anything, not that it necessarily should be one. My system, at least, has no monster levels. Zero, zilch, none. Problems solved. If you do want to have...

Well, there's a few ways that can happen. Assuming you're using the standard 4d6 generation, frankly it just hinders you from achieving exacting customization, but you are still getting higher-than-average skills which you can distribute through assignation and serve the same purpose as the...