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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2501425" data-attributes="member: 30035">I'm playing a bard in a new campaign. I'm really pleased with her skills, and her attack bonus isn't bad either. She's good with both melee and ranged weapons, even with a relatively low Dex. Her spell selection is limited, but useful, and this way I don't have to agonize over what spells to take as I would with a wizard or cleric. She can do backup healing. She can negotiate or gather information. All in all, I think she's a very useful character. As far as her bardic music ability (wish they wouldn't call it that; makes people think of lute-playing types too much), I'm actually not using that much because we have another bard in the party!As Henry pointed out, a bard doesn't have to sing or play a musical instrument. A bard could be a poet or storyteller. A bard can also perform in other ways - juggling, tumbling and acrobatics, dance. Obviously you can't use the physical performance types for the things like 'Inspire Courage', but maybe your bard could be an acrobat who is just really good at encouraging and inspiring the other party members with his banter. Just think how cool it could be if your bard has a high Dex and lots of ranks in tumble! I have a friend who's playing a bard in another game as a comedienne, who jabs at her opponents with her witty put-downs. Combined with the Goad feat, this could be very effective if the character has a good attack bonus, or Combat Reflexes. You could also multiclass as a swashbuckler for extra fighting abilities. And bards have some nice prestige classes. I'm planning to take my bard into the Worldspeaker class (from Dragon) so she can speak to all sorts of unusual creatures like elementals and plants, plus it stacks with her bardic music and knowledge abilities. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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