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<blockquote data-quote="Herbalizer" data-source="post: 6854221" data-attributes="member: 6824144">As foolish as dropping your weapon to cast a spell ...A Bard is a spell caster ...In the description, it says &quot;You can use a musical instrument (found in chapter 5) as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells.&quot;&nbsp; The keyword here is &quot;can&quot; ..which means you could play a Bard that carries a component pouch and therefore can cast with a shield (by sheathing his weapon and then grabbing material from the pouch and doing the Somatic with the same hand) ...For everyone else, a spell focus exists to simplify casting (Wizards and Sorcerer can have a crystal embedded in a staff, clerics/paladin can simply carve the symbol on their shield) ...so why make it more complicated for the Bard to use his spell focus which is also part of the &quot;identity&quot; of this class ?&nbsp; It just creates an obstacle for role playing your character as you should and have fun with it.&nbsp; To me, it doesn't make sense ...If playing an instrument in the middle of combat is not supposed to be a good idea, they should either specifically mention it, or not give the Shield proficiency to valor Bards or simply not bother with a Bard class.&nbsp; I mean, there are plenty of spells with (M) that needs to be cast during a battle.Whether you like Bards or not, I think it is clear that of all the spell caster, the musical instrument mechanic puts the Bard at a disadvantage and I don't think that was the plan ...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Herbalizer, post: 6854221, member: 6824144"] As foolish as dropping your weapon to cast a spell ... A Bard is a spell caster ...In the description, it says "You can use a musical instrument (found in chapter 5) as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells." The keyword here is "can" ..which means you could play a Bard that carries a component pouch and therefore can cast with a shield (by sheathing his weapon and then grabbing material from the pouch and doing the Somatic with the same hand) ...For everyone else, a spell focus exists to simplify casting (Wizards and Sorcerer can have a crystal embedded in a staff, clerics/paladin can simply carve the symbol on their shield) ...so why make it more complicated for the Bard to use his spell focus which is also part of the "identity" of this class ? It just creates an obstacle for role playing your character as you should and have fun with it. To me, it doesn't make sense ...If playing an instrument in the middle of combat is not supposed to be a good idea, they should either specifically mention it, or not give the Shield proficiency to valor Bards or simply not bother with a Bard class. I mean, there are plenty of spells with (M) that needs to be cast during a battle. Whether you like Bards or not, I think it is clear that of all the spell caster, the musical instrument mechanic puts the Bard at a disadvantage and I don't think that was the plan ... [/QUOTE]

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