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A bard fights as well as a rogue, cleric, or druid? Maybe if the rogue "forgets" how to use sneak attacks, the cleric "forgets" to cast magic vestment/greater magic weapon/shield of faith, and the druid suddenly "forgets" that he can shape into a bear. The bard can start singing for a +2 to...

Oops. I forgot Bardic Knowledge in my above post. :o

A high-level mage with 0 ranks in Spellcraft and 0 ranks in Concentration can stop time and blast his enemies into the abyss (as gunslinger said), a high-level cleric with 0 ranks in Knowledge (religion) and 0 ranks in Concentration can ask his diety to do the same. A high-level fighter with no...

Reading through the SRD (and really scrutinizing this time), I would say that all you need to gain the bardic music abilities is the required Perform skill in any category. Say if I have 12 ranks in Perform(stringed) but 6 ranks in Perform(Sing), then I would have gained access to Inspire...

It also means that most 3.5 bards will be taking Perform(song) over the other Perform skills - using a stringed or wind instrument to inspire greatness/courage/heroics would mean that you can't fight while doing it. I thought that 3.5 would make my Bard more skilled (I have this whole story...

Duelist? Can you confirm the changes to the Duelist PrC that you stated in your compiled (Possible) 3.5 revisions? Specifically, do they really only get Precise Strike at 5th level (+1d6) and 10th level (+2d6)? And does their INT bonus to AC only apply when wearing no armor and no shield...

AFAIK, bard songs only work on conscious targets (who can hear him sing). When you drop below 0 hp, the PHB says that you are unconscious... I knew it! Cacofonix was a level 16 bard with no ranks in perform! **mulls over what a Bard can achieve now with mind fog and shadow evocation...

Tough? Think not. At level 1 you get sustaining song, which is pretty much useless compared to inspire greatness, as tacrhon said (If you have too many people to sustain you're probably pretty much dead anyway). At level two, wohoo, you get NOTHING. Level three comes with calumny. Good for...

S&S just says that they get all the (old) bard songs subject to meeting the Perform reqs, and that the bardic song uses stack. Of course, this is because they didn't write it for 3.5. But now they have new songs, and songs like inspire courage, inspire greatness, fascinate, etc give benefits for...

I gathered that the reason they added level requirements was to prevent people from taking one level in Bard and putting points into Perform, thus getting all the songs for free, although inspire greatness required actual levels to effect multiple creatures. Like I opined, virtuoso is a bard...

That's sad... giving up BAB and Reflex saves for a song every level seemed balanced enough. After all aren't virtuosos essentially Bards who focus on their songs? Oh well maybe they'll update Song and Silence or something.

To put it into more perspective... a sorcerer can blast 7 of those spells compared to a bard's measly three :rolleyes: Not that I expect Bards to be uber casters, though. Was emotion that overpowered? Two of the functions were non-combat. Splitting it into about four spells is drastic. But I...

Shadow said that the spell progression doesn't change. Isn't it kinda wierd to put a spell in and expect people not to take it, because it could appear in a wand or scroll? After all, there's always UMD. And with the 6 skill points a Bard would be pretty lame not to max it now. Bards have...

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53115&pagenumber=3 Yup, he does, but later than the sorc. Starts from level 5 and every 3 levels after that.

Touche :) Even better, they put it at first level. Cheers! I'm glad that the sixth level spell Control Weather is gone. Could never figure how to roleplay casting that spell. (Do a raindance?:rolleyes: ) I'm sad that levitate is gone now... can't think of an excuse to leave it in, but it was...