Kinak
First Post
My litmus, which I don't expect WotC to follow, is: for something to be a class, it needs to have its own mechanical identity.
So, if they have something interesting going on under the hood, be it variant spellcasting or bardic performance, they should be their own class. If they're just some skill training or a very narrow power, they could be a subclass, background, or even a feat.
I think it'd be selling the bard short to not give them an interesting mechanic, though. Hopefully it won't be something quite as tracking-intensive as 3/Pathfinder bardic music, but a bard class with a bunch of performance types as subclasses seems like an easy fit.
Cheers!
Kinak
So, if they have something interesting going on under the hood, be it variant spellcasting or bardic performance, they should be their own class. If they're just some skill training or a very narrow power, they could be a subclass, background, or even a feat.
I think it'd be selling the bard short to not give them an interesting mechanic, though. Hopefully it won't be something quite as tracking-intensive as 3/Pathfinder bardic music, but a bard class with a bunch of performance types as subclasses seems like an easy fit.
Cheers!
Kinak