Bard Prestige Classes

[Doctor DM]

Anyone know of any good ones? The only that I know of are the War Chanter and that lyrical druid thing.

And what are just some prestige classes that aren't bard specific, but work really well with bards?

Thanks.

 

[Crothian]

There is a great one in Complete Mage. I forget the name right now though.

 

[IamTheTest]

Sublime Chord ftw.

 

[Dross]

Try dragonsong Lyrist in draconomicon.

 

[pawsplay]

Bladesinger (elf prestige class)
Virtuoso
Cloaked Dancer
Shadowdancer

 

[SelcSilverhand]

Seeker of the Song and Sublime Chord from the Complete Arcane book are both solid PrC's. The first lets you use your bardic music abilities to do some neat things. Each of the songs they get have two functions, the first is usually some resistance to an element and in the second round you turn the song into an attack as a swift action. You also get an ability to start two songs as a standard action. The big downside is that you focus on music so much that you no longer gain new spells.

Sublime Chord is the opposite. You gain spell levels faster becoming more like a sorcerer with access up to 9th level spells. You get 3 or 4 of new bardic music abilities.

I went with seeker of the song and took my bard to 18th. With the extra music and lingering song feats he's a lot more handy in combat. Coupled with the 2-songs-at-once ability I can get the buffs out faster and switch to damage dealing faster.

 

[nittanytbone]

Sublime chord.

 

[DreadArchon]

There is a great one in Complete Mage. I forget the name right now though.

Lyric Thaumaturge. Which, yes, I also rather like.

The Dirgesinger from Libris Mortis tickles me too.

Edit: Oh, haha, I missed a couple obvious points. Like that you already have War Chanter. My bad. Still, the above two are my personal favorites.

 

[Doctor DM]

These are all really good. I especially like the Lyric Thaumaturge. The Mountebank from complete scoundrel is pretty sweet too.