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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashrym" data-source="post: 9058285" data-attributes="member: 6750235">It doesn't make them powerful.  It gives a variety of options.  A divine bard is never going to heal like a life cleric or blast like an evoker.  A person would play a druid for wildshape and subclass abilities.I do believe that daily preparation and all three spell lists combines to be to much versatility, but just having that access doesn't let bards do with those spells what other classes can.  Magical secrets was an over-rated feature.  ;-)Song of rest is thematic and useful but ultimately replaceable by the healer feat or spells.  I will miss it but can deal if there's a concern with too many bard benefits.Bards aren't a master of any of them.  Compare a bard to a cleric, for example.  The cleric can can more easily swap spells, has more cantrips, adds potent cantrip, has a lot more spells prepared from domain spells, and can improve spellcasting via subclass.Clerics are better with the divine spell list than bards are.  It's not like a bard can heal like a life cleric, cover rituals from a spell book or recover spell slots like a wizard, or use metamagic like a sorcerer.The UA bard "spell preparation" mechanic allows for learning 8 spells from any list and possibly exchanging 11 from leveling up under that mechanic.  That's never going to master any list.How exactly is this new UA bard replacing any of those classes?</blockquote>