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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gabrion" data-source="post: 2671267" data-attributes="member: 30779">I'm a big fan of focussing the bard on social interaction and spying/stealth.  In combat though, staying out of melee and performing/casting spells/shooting a bow is the place to be.  I won't offer a ton of advice here (after all you can go pretty much any direction with the bard), but I will say a bit about inspiring courage.I think Inspire Courage (in a party with four others, three of which I'm guessing will actually be fighting), is the most useful tool you'll have to help in combat.  You have to do a few things to maximize the output of that ability though. <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Use a horn.  Horns grant an additional +1 to the damage bonus from inspire courage.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Use inspirational boost from CAdv.  This spell is cast as a swift action and increases the bonuses from inspire courage by 1.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Get the Words of Creation feat from BoED.  This feat will be hard to use at first, as it does subdual damage, but it doubles the bonuses from inspire courage.  Depending on how your DM interprets this, you will be adding either +3/+4 or +4/+6 to attack and damage rolls.  All this is possible at low levels too.</li> </ul>When I played a bard like this I loved to keep track of how much extra damage was done during combat because of me.  You'll be suprised to see that with enough people fighting, it will often be more than the party "tank." As to your question of CAdv, there are some nice spells and feats in there and I would buy the book even if you don't use it to play this bard in particular.  For PrCs you're probably better off using one from CA or CW, or even something from Forgotten Realms if you can.  Anyway, good luck.</blockquote>

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