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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Victim" data-source="post: 2228408" data-attributes="member: 78">Frostburn.It's quite surprising how powerful bardic music is.  At 8th level, Inspire Courage is a modest +2 morale to attack, damage, and some other crap.  Let's assume a vanilla level 8 fighter who doesn't use any active feats has a +1 flaming greatsword, greater focus and (normal) specialization, and a 22 STR and that his foes have AC 25.  If the bard's only contribution is to sing his +2 song in fights, then he increases the fighter's damage by about 30%.  If the group has a 2 weapon guy (2 +1 flame short swords, 18 STR, greater focus and ITWF), then damage increases by about 51% - and only partially because the twf guy has lower damage.  So a bard buffing up 2 fighter types is almost doing as much damage as a 3rd fighter.And a bard can do a whole lot more than that.  In addition to having whole bunch of social skills, bards also pack stuff like Haste, Displacement, GMW, etc.  With the right spells and feats, they can add +2 to their Inspire song which allows the bard to add almost +63% to Greatsword guy's damage in the example above.  With moderate Bab, tons of buffs, and decent weapons, a bard can pull off a credible imitation of the Combat Cleric.</blockquote>