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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1432045" data-attributes="member: 5171">I don't know the game, so I can't say whether or not this is true, but it's also possible that the players of the fighter and wizard are either receiving or taking special treatment.  Do they have ranks in skills that would make them effective as generals, or a PrC that would make them such?  Frankly, in this war campaign, YOU ought to be the general.  You're the guy who can inspire the troops with loyalty.  You're the guy who's swung enough weapons to tell the grunts how to stick to it, who's cast enough spells to give the wizards the right jobs, and who's snuck through enough lairs to know when the scouts are being lazy and when they're being safe.Even if you're not the general, you can be the liason with the troops, the one that the guys go to when they feel that they can't trust the general.  Feel like your squad is being used for stupid scut work, when you're clearly worlds better than teh other squards?  Talk to the bard.  He'll tell it like it is.  One of the grunts getting a little too talkative and asking for secrets, but you're not sure whether he's a blabbermouth or a spy?  Talk to the bard and let him suss it out for you.You're a bard, man.  You can walk into an occupied enemy territory with a disguise, a few songs, and a musical instrument and get the royal treatment in the local tavern.  Then you can casually sing songs that sow the seeds of despair, buy a few drinks and see what the low-ranking enemy grunts tell you in the way of information, and cast Modify Memory on one or two lieutenants so that they remember their orders incorrectly and send their troops off in the wrong direction at some critical moment.In times of war, you need a lot of good fighters, but a squad of bards can turn the tide.</blockquote>

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