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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8392103" data-attributes="member: 6704184">To be fair, if you took the 3.5 Inspire Courage, gave the bard a list of a few kinds of Inspiration they could give, and made it a bonus action, it would feel more Bardic than 5e Bardic Inspiration, and I really don't think it would be too powerful. Like, ditch magical secrets, give Jack of All Trades to the Ranger (or give most classes a set of skills they get half proficiency in if untrained, and a simple +1 if trained, and then never give any static bonuses to skills ever again in the entirety of the system. Just the class skill bonus, and proficiency/expertise.) give Bards 3.5 style inspire as a bonus action (inlcuding range and duration per 3.5), and keep inspiration dice as a separate resource the bard has to do a variety of things.Yeah, that simply is not what a jack of all trades is. You don't actually have to specialize in something to be good at it. A character who can fill nearly any role, is useful in some way in pretty much every kind of scene/challenge, is a jack of all trades. Being mediocre is not a requirement, by any stretch of the imagination.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8392103, member: 6704184"] To be fair, if you took the 3.5 Inspire Courage, gave the bard a list of a few kinds of Inspiration they could give, and made it a bonus action, it would feel more Bardic than 5e Bardic Inspiration, and I really don't think it would be too powerful. Like, ditch magical secrets, give Jack of All Trades to the Ranger (or give most classes a set of skills they get half proficiency in if untrained, and a simple +1 if trained, and then never give any static bonuses to skills ever again in the entirety of the system. Just the class skill bonus, and proficiency/expertise.) give Bards 3.5 style inspire as a bonus action (inlcuding range and duration per 3.5), and keep inspiration dice as a separate resource the bard has to do a variety of things. Yeah, that simply is not what a jack of all trades is. You don't actually have to specialize in something to be good at it. A character who can fill nearly any role, is useful in some way in pretty much every kind of scene/challenge, is a jack of all trades. Being mediocre is not a requirement, by any stretch of the imagination. [/QUOTE]

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