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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9083554" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't think this summary is quite right.Lore specialises you as a caster, compared to the other two. You get more skills, but you're not more of a "jack of all trades" in the gameplay sense, just in the skill usage sense.Swords and Valor give an extra attack, Lore does not. As Bards don't have good damage cantrips unless you blow magical secrets on Eldritch Blast and don't have good damage spells without magical secrets (esp. as Larian cruelly nerfed Dissonant Whispers, bizarre given the buffs they've given some spells), those attacks can matter.Lore is likely to blow most uses of Bardic Inspiration on the very OP version of Cutting Words that BG3 has, unless that is changed for release (last I played it applied minus inspiration die to basically every d20 roll the enemy made until your next turn).Valor doesn't add anything good inspiration-wise - Swords usages are on you but they're also pretty powerful - their shove, for example has no save or check associated with it.But it's quite likely Larian have messed with a whole bunch of these abilities. For all we know, Magic Secrets got nerfed, Valor Bards got turbo-buffed, and so on.</blockquote>