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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1430876" data-attributes="member: 463">BTW Telperion, I do think the 3e Bard is pretty much designed as a 'support' characters - they work better as Cohorts than as PCs IMO.Have you considered retiring the Bard and bringing in a new PC?  If the GM lets your new PC be of similar level to the others it should be easy to create a character useful to a military campaign.  Clearly information-gathering types are out, so here's some other possibilities:Eg - if you create a battle-oriented Sorcerer, you should have no trouble overshadowing the Wizard in combat.  He can cast his Diviniations and such while you fireball the enemy into oblivion.Or, you could create a min-maxed melee machine, who can chop up the enemy while that Fighter is bellowing orders from the sidelines.   Or how about a DEX-based archer assassin/sniper type, nailing enemy mages and commanders with his deadly longbow shafts.  A PrC like Arcane Archer or Deepwoods Sniper would work well here.Another possibility would be to create a Fighter-type PC who's a subcommander in the army, maybe a knight or noble.  A PrC that gave morale-boosting powers would be good here; your unit could become very valuable, even if you don't always obey your leader' orders to the letter...Or maybe a Cleric or Druid?  As written, these are probably the all-round strongest classes in 3e.  Cleric is great in that you can Summon powerful allies (maybe _too_ powerful) for the big battles, and use deadly magics on your foes.  If the campaign features religion at all, you could use it to inspire the troops into a fighting-fervour of religious fanaticism, also creating your own power base within the army - who would dare disobey the Voice of God?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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