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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kalendraf" data-source="post: 1901300" data-attributes="member: 3433">This NPC already has 8 levels of bard.  It's where to go from here if/when the character levels up next that I'm considering.  As for Psionics, there isn't any in this campaign world, so that's a no.  I'm not anti-psionics, just that this world doesn't feature it.To help explain the situation better, here's more background on this particular bard and how she fits into the current party.  This should help explain where I'm coming from on this.The character was originally just a no-name, unstatted prisoner that was rescued by the party.  In the process of leading her and other captives to safety, they were ambushed by a group of grimlocks and she was killed.  Feeling bad about losing one of the prisoners in this way, the party managed to help get her raised.  She was faced with a choice of going back to her old life working in a shop for a man she had grown to despise vs. finding something else to do.  She sweet-talked her way into repaying her debt to the party, offering to tend their animals and campsite while they travelled, but her real goal was to become an adventurer herself.  Along the way, she began studying from the party's bard.Fast-forward several months of playtime and levels worth of adventuring, and this NPC bard has now become one of the team.  She's demonstrated her usefulness multiple times, but she still lags behind them in levels (most of party is 10th to 11th).  She continues to try to find ways to improve, but fears she'll never be able to out-bard the party's main bard.  Also, there is some drawback in the 2 bard overlap - having both sing to inspire courage does not help.  She's taken some alternate spells that the other bard doesn't have to help avoid as much overlap in spellcasting, but being a lower level caster means her magic is usually less effective.Continuing down the bard path looks to be one that will forever confine her to living in the shadow of the other bard in the party.  Thus, in an attempt to differentiate and/or prove herself more useful to the party, she is searching for alternatives.  Developing her bow skills further seems to her like one way to do that, but there may well be other better options for her that have not been considered.</blockquote>

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