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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spooq" data-source="post: 4674071" data-attributes="member: 82447">My Half-Elf Valor Bard is indeed wearing chainmail with a shield. Only level 1, so no wand/songblade yet, but I am taking Sneak of Shadows on the next level (as much for Thievery as for Backstab), so right now am using a shortsword rather than the more powerful longsword.I don't know the strength requirements for scale, but I expect I will probably go for it by the time we get around to dividing up dragonscale armour. Plate is almost certainly out of reach. This is painful because I expect my AC and Reflex defence to lag permanently.Basically, I am paying the price of flexibility. So far, the tradeoffs seem to be reasonable. At level 15, I may have wished I did things differently. I see my Bard as primarily a long-range Leader type, but as there are only three of us in the party, he needs to be able to defend himself in a scrap, and to be able to occasionally come forward at the right moment to help the other two guys finish off a tough enemy. Other than that, he is all about the Cha-shooting/healing/NPC-talking aspect of the Bard.I guess the point here is that Cunning Bards will be in light armour, and Valor Bards will be in chain (or better, if they can wrangle it). Both those options make sense to me.</blockquote>