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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 5915667" data-attributes="member: 87792"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20031231031148/http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=69857" target="_blank">I pretty much wrote the book back in the day on ways to play the bard.</a>  And they almost all end up with a highly-overlapping equipment list even if they don't share a single spell.  A no-brainer is that every character who can use a wand of Cure Light Wounds probably should.  But deeper is that bards always end up in a Chain Shirt, normally a Mithral one* - and a Mithral buckler or small shield (this isn't quite as silly as the fact that a smart wizard with decent cashflow will almost inevitably buy a +1 Mithral Twilight Chain Shirt if they can - and possibly also a Mithral Buckler)The reason not to pick a strong solid loadout of combat spells is if I want a specialist combatant when that's what I'll spend the time tweaking.  Or if I'm going to be antisocial and do nothing useful in combat.* Possibly a Mithral Breastplate at mid-high levels for the most tightly combat focussed builds.I like the idea of lack of homogenisation of classes but not when it breaks balance.</blockquote>