Would changing the Lore Bard so that Spellcasting & Bardic Inspiration are based on Intelligence make the class more powerful than it is?
I feel many Lore Bard concepts would work better with a focus on Intelligence instead of Charisma. After all, the four "lore" skills are Arcana, History, Nature, and Religion, and they are all Intelligence skills. You'd think a "Lore Bard" would be good at, you know, lore.
The main problem I can see with such a change is one of balance: the Lore Bard is already one of the best classes in the game, and I fear changing Charisma to Intelligence would somehow make it an even stronger class. The only imbalance I can think of is the Bard/Wizard multiclass, which could potentially be too strong, but maybe there is more.
I feel many Lore Bard concepts would work better with a focus on Intelligence instead of Charisma. After all, the four "lore" skills are Arcana, History, Nature, and Religion, and they are all Intelligence skills. You'd think a "Lore Bard" would be good at, you know, lore.
The main problem I can see with such a change is one of balance: the Lore Bard is already one of the best classes in the game, and I fear changing Charisma to Intelligence would somehow make it an even stronger class. The only imbalance I can think of is the Bard/Wizard multiclass, which could potentially be too strong, but maybe there is more.
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