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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Apok" data-source="post: 104200" data-attributes="member: 1969">Oh, I agree completely that the Bard's versatility is a really neat idea.  However, not everybody is going to want to play the Bard as such a character.  I'm not saying that the bard must be nailed down into an specific arechtype, only that the option should be there for those who want it.  True, you could roleplay a Bard as being any one of these archetypes, but anyone can roleplay any class as anything (well, just about).  My concern is the "crunchy bits," if you will.  What differentiates a Skald type Bard from a Riddlemaster?  Sure, your skill and spell selections might be a bit different and they would be rp'd differently, but you'd still be fairly similiar mechanics-wise.  The great thing about Fighters is that their large number of feats gives them a great deal of customizability.  A Bard's abilities are more static; This is what you get, Period.  They don't get very many feats to work with and there are few really good feats that help to focus a Bard's talents.  Spell selection helps diversify Bards somewhat, but their spell selection is rather limited in it's scope.  This is why I am a major advocate for Bard PrC's.  If a player wants to play the standard Jack Bard, wonderfull.  However, I am in favor of giving people more leeway in customizing thier Bards AND giving them tangible mechanical benefits to represent their chosen focus, at the cost of other abilities.  Sounds just like a PrC, doesn't it?But that's just my opinion; I could be wrong.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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