Ambiguously Gendered Child of "What is the Hivemind?"

[Crothian]

If you wanted to do that, you could with an Illusionist...or even an Adept. Its not that 3.0 Bards couldn't do anything, its that they couldn't do anything with a level of competence comparable to anybody else except skill around, and Rogues were still much better at that...

but they had the skills and the spells. good saves, okay hit points, and flare. and the bardic knowledge was fantastic, I talked the DM into actually making it useful (so many DMs just don't prepare for it and are at a loss of what to tell the Bard when he uses it)

 

[Crothian]

yoink.

enjoy, we were framing him for a crime he didn't commit so I decided to have the boards talk to him as if he was guilty, so he was no longer sure if he had done it or not

 

[Rystil Arden]

but they had the skills and the spells. good saves, okay hit points, and flare. and the bardic knowledge was fantastic, I talked the DM into actually making it useful (so many DMs just don't prepare for it and are at a loss of what to tell the Bard when he uses it)

As a DM, for the rare player who agrees to play the Bard, I make Bardic Knowledge damn useful. I encourage them to ask to make a bardic knowledge check every time I say the name of anything, ever. Its my gift to the bard because I love the concept but the class sucked too much

 

[Jdvn1]

when 3.0 came out we gamesd like 16 hours a weekend minimium, and many times we gamed about 30 hours. those were the days.....

With 3.0, I played something like 6 times a week. Is that overboard?

 

[Crothian]

At least the girls stuck around long enough to agree for you. I am going on a tangent...oh yeah- this is Hivemind. It is a tangent

well, they wern't agreeing with me...its not like I said, "oh by the way don't you think I have the charisma of a toaster..let's make out." and they responded "Why, I agree you do have the charisma of a toaster...I'm leaving"

it was more like to their friends "Oh, my God!! he has the charisma of a toaster!! I can't believe I went out with him!!"

ah, I was young and foolish then....I'm old and foolish now

 

[megamania]

but they had the skills and the spells. good saves, okay hit points, and flare. and the bardic knowledge was fantastic, I talked the DM into actually making it useful (so many DMs just don't prepare for it and are at a loss of what to tell the Bard when he uses it)

Very true.

For my eberron game, I am creating a Chamber PRC that allows for Bardic Knowledge. VERY useful

 

[Crothian]

As a DM, for the rare player who agrees to play the Bard, I make Bardic Knowledge damn useful. I encourage them to ask to make a bardic knowledge check every time I say the name of anything, ever. Its my gift to the bard because I love the concept but the class sucked too much

in the right hands it held its own....I can play a bard, but I suck at playing a cleric.....

 

[megamania]

With 3.0, I played something like 6 times a week. Is that overboard?

You are weak. You forgot a day

 

[Crothian]

With 3.0, I played something like 6 times a week. Is that overboard?

that depends....do you want a social life outside of gaming??

 

[megamania]

ah, I was young and foolish then....I'm old and foolish now

Describes us all I believe.