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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Falling Icicle" data-source="post: 6035355" data-attributes="member: 17077">I love the idea of Bardic music being its own type of magic instead of just giving Bards spells. I've wanted to see something like that for a long time. I just hope there's an option for a non-musical bard. I'd like the option to play a more scholarly bard that uses oratory and ancient words of power instead of singing and playing a lute, for example.As for the Ranger just taking archery or two-weapon fighting as specialties/feats instead of getting them as class abilities, that is also an idea I wholeheartedly approve. I have never really understood why rangers were shoe-horned into two-weapon fighting. If I want to play a ranger that uses a two handed axe, there's no reason such a character should be at a disadvantage compared to a ranger that uses TWF or archery.Having animal companions, henchmen, bound elementals, etc all fall under an optional rules module along with followers is a great idea. Why should I have to be a druid or ranger to be able to play a character that has an animal companion? That never made sense to me. I also didn't like how pets multiplied the power of certain classes. I remember playing a druid in 3e whose pet was more powerful than the party fighter. No joke.Some players were also turned off by the complexity of having to manage a pet in addition to their own character, and before, turning down a pet was simply a loss of power with no compensation. Pets can also be annoying and I can understand why some DM's may not wish to allow them in their games. By having pets/minions/henchmen as part of an optional rules module, it's there for people who want to use them, but easy to leave out for those that don't. When it's not a written part of a class, players have no reason to feel entitled to it.</blockquote>

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