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Monte cook's bard
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JLXC said:
I would have written something to help, but the above quote sums it all up
I love it
I have an MC bard in my campaign now - it's excellent. I've left the PHB bard in the campaign, renamed to "Dilletante", but the new bard rocks pretty hard. The spellsongs are interesting, and she's balancing out well with the rest of the party.
The bard and the rogue have got all manner of information gathering nicely covered as well.
I have an MC bard in my campaign now - it's excellent. I've left the PHB bard in the campaign, renamed to "Dilletante", but the new bard rocks pretty hard. The spellsongs are interesting, and she's balancing out well with the rest of the party.
The bard and the rogue have got all manner of information gathering nicely covered as well.
The Sigil
Mr. 3000 (Words per post)
I may be wrong...
*Shameless plug...* if you're really interested in adding depth and flavor to your bard without the hassle of converting to a totally new system, consider the Enchiridion of Mystic Music (available at www.RPGNow.com ). You can find a brief product description and other goodies at http://www.cooleys.org/publishing/ - not as "radical" as Monte's revision, but is completely "modular" with the existing system (no converting from scratch).
It vastly expands the bard's abilities by focusing on their music, rather than their spells. If you're dissatisfied by the fact that bardic music essentially stops at 9th level, you just might want to check it out... imagine over 80 things your bard can do with his music instead of the 6 in the PHB (that's more than 10 times as much). Best of all, it's practically 100% OGC (the only things in the book that aren't OGC are the product name, publisher name, e-mail addresses, graphics, and graphics credits), so anyone can add on to the basic system presented.
--The Sigil
I may be wrong, but I believe the bard - and spellsongs - are NOT Open Game Content. Meaning even if they wanted to, nobody could make more spellsongs.Setanta said:
That's really the only thing not to like about Monte's bard... it's SO different that it is almost impossible to "convert" an existing character... you have to start from scratch.
*Shameless plug...* if you're really interested in adding depth and flavor to your bard without the hassle of converting to a totally new system, consider the Enchiridion of Mystic Music (available at www.RPGNow.com ). You can find a brief product description and other goodies at http://www.cooleys.org/publishing/ - not as "radical" as Monte's revision, but is completely "modular" with the existing system (no converting from scratch).
It vastly expands the bard's abilities by focusing on their music, rather than their spells. If you're dissatisfied by the fact that bardic music essentially stops at 9th level, you just might want to check it out... imagine over 80 things your bard can do with his music instead of the 6 in the PHB (that's more than 10 times as much). Best of all, it's practically 100% OGC (the only things in the book that aren't OGC are the product name, publisher name, e-mail addresses, graphics, and graphics credits), so anyone can add on to the basic system presented.
--The Sigil
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The thing that has kept me from introducing a Monte bard to my campaign is your book. I haven't finished reading it yet (I'm waaay behind on D20 stuff), but it looks promising that I will be able to introduce a new bard character without having to go with Monte's interesting yet 'dead end' bard.
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