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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 165051" data-attributes="member: 710"><p>If you can avoid it, don`t get to much ranks in Knowledge Skill. Instead, you might consider Obscure Lore (Song & Silence), which gives you a bonus to your Bardic Knowledge Skill (If you stay a single classed bard, this can give you the equivalent of several maxed-out knowledge skills)</p><p></p><p>If I don`t use a skill to often, I try to get it at 5 ranks and let it there - this might give you some synergy bonus (excuse my powergaming behaviour <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=":)" /> ) and a decent skill value. If you think about going the stealth route a little bit, just buy boots of elvenkind / cloak of elvenkind (or later Robe of Blending/Ring of Chameleon Power). Together with your halfling/size bonus, this will be enough for most things.</p><p></p><p>NEVER NEVER NEVER forget to max out Use Magic Device. It is always useful. You can use wands and scrolls with ease, and so you might be able to even cast some spells that no one of your group has on its spell list. You can try to activate unidentified magic items with the skill, and so on...</p><p></p><p>Since you are interested in Knowledge, Divinations should make a big part of your spell list. </p><p>If you want to help your party, buffing spells are always good. (Cat`s Grace, Endurance, Bull`s Strength)</p><p></p><p>Mustrum Ridcully</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 165051, member: 710"] If you can avoid it, don`t get to much ranks in Knowledge Skill. Instead, you might consider Obscure Lore (Song & Silence), which gives you a bonus to your Bardic Knowledge Skill (If you stay a single classed bard, this can give you the equivalent of several maxed-out knowledge skills) If I don`t use a skill to often, I try to get it at 5 ranks and let it there - this might give you some synergy bonus (excuse my powergaming behaviour :) ) and a decent skill value. If you think about going the stealth route a little bit, just buy boots of elvenkind / cloak of elvenkind (or later Robe of Blending/Ring of Chameleon Power). Together with your halfling/size bonus, this will be enough for most things. NEVER NEVER NEVER forget to max out Use Magic Device. It is always useful. You can use wands and scrolls with ease, and so you might be able to even cast some spells that no one of your group has on its spell list. You can try to activate unidentified magic items with the skill, and so on... Since you are interested in Knowledge, Divinations should make a big part of your spell list. If you want to help your party, buffing spells are always good. (Cat`s Grace, Endurance, Bull`s Strength) Mustrum Ridcully [/QUOTE]
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