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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chimera" data-source="post: 2747029" data-attributes="member: 2002">They increased the skill points of the Bard, but I still don't like the way they handle Perform.  Nine types is a bit much and there's no effective reason to take more than one of them except for flavor.Most GMs I've played with house rule Perform to some degree.I'd have no problem with a free point or two of Perform per level.Don't much care for this.  Given the weaknesses of the class, endless multi-classing becomes just another way of gaining the Performance Enhancing (sic) abilities of the class without actually being a Bard.  It's like taking a level of the old Ranger class to get all the front-loaded abilities without any intention of being an actual Ranger.I've just designed a 4th level Bard to be my future Cohort.  My GM is going to introduce the character tonight, even though I just reached 5th level and won't be able to gain her services until I'm 6th and take Leadership.I'd agree that the skills thing still sucks, even at 6/level, especially with all the various kinds of Perform.I'd say that the spell progression is my biggest problem with the Bard class.  She only gets 1 second level spell at 4th level, and ONLY if she has sufficiently high Charisma.But then, the Perform/Inspire abilities are rather cool.  Using Inspirational Boost (a Swift spell) from Complete Adventurer, she'll be at +2 using her Inspire Courage.  A seriously great benefit to a party of 8!  That alone makes her seriously worth the price of admission.</blockquote>

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