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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IndyPendant" data-source="post: 2502382" data-attributes="member: 8738">One option I haven't seen come up here: take a UMD/support/magic/face bard.  Go for the typical jack-of-all-trades type!  Here's the concept:Face: Social skills.Spells: Cha-based spellcasting synergizes well with social skills.  Take spells the bard gets early or exclusively, like Laughter, Heroism, and Good Hope.  But don't forget the heals and Dispels!Support: Bardsong.  Easy.  Sing it up (or use poetry), don't bother with instruments unless you can spare the skill points.UMD: don't bother with this until at least level 8 (or higher).  Until then, use Xbows.  Then start exploring wands.  Get a wand of MM, caster level 3rd if you can handle it, and zap in combat.  At higher levels, get a wand of Scorching Ray.  It has 50 charges, so it will last a *long* time, since for half the battles you will be bardsinging and casting spells.  And get a wand of CLW.Toss in a few other skills, whatever you'd like.Stats: Min str! 14 Dex and (if possible) Con, Int 14, Cha 16 (or if possible 18), and Wis whatever's left.Fun class to play.  Not spectacular in combat--but then, that's not what bards are about.  If I ever played a bard, this is what I would try.</blockquote>