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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kengar" data-source="post: 699230" data-attributes="member: 3230">If the bard player is a newbie, you might want to offer her the chance to pick your brain on tactics, etc. out of session. That way, you aren't giving away specifics to an adventure, just good advice.Suggest she read some of the advice in "Song & Silence" about ways to run her character. Also, WOTC's website recently started a series of articles on playing a bard and ways to employ their skills better. Granted, it's not a Monte-Bard, but some of the information should still apply.As far as the other characters are concerned, what are their alignments? Any Lawful Goods in the mix? You might start affecting their XP awards for being "out of character" when they leave a party member hanging like that. Give the bard more XP awards for "heroic" acts like the aforementioned "running to help" and sufferings AoO's as a result. You can also talk to the other players between sessions and ask them to help you get the new player up to speed by giving her advice when she asks for it. Eventually, the lack of teamwork will bite them on the kiester. I wrote a blurb about party cooperation that's in pdf form <a href="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/bighara/7lvlsplit.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> about that for my group.</blockquote>