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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3078" data-attributes="member: 710">Bards are NOT a weak class. 1) He raises the power of all accompaning PCs by increasing their damage and attack abilities, by protecting them from some magical effects. He can use his spells to further augment him or other ones (hey, he can learn haste, Greater Magic Weapon, Displacement, Cat`s Grace, Bull`s Strength and many funny things more).2) He is the only one who really has a great chance in social situation. The rogue typically has the possibility to learn the neccessary skills, but he has not the charisma - and he has to spend his skill points on skills like Open Lock/Disable Device, Search, Spot, Listen, Move Silently and Hide.He is often even better than a paladin (he often lacks the Skill Points and he does by far not have all of the neccessary skills)3) A Bard has &quot;Use Magic Device&quot;. This is one of the most powerfull skills, and unlike a Rogue he can use it (thanks to his Charisma) to full effectiveness. At higher levels he has no problems to use Wands of any kind (Wand of Fireball? Wand of Haste? Wand of Magig Missile? Wand of Cure Moderare?)4) He can cast healing spells and if you have no cleric he is the best one to ask for this. (The Druid or Ranger will not always want to prepare healing spells)Playing Bard is fun. It is a character who will never shine out in combat - at least not obviously - hidden he can be one of the most important characters...Mustrum RidcullyPS: I have to admit that I would be happy to have more skill points, but who cares... <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 3078, member: 710"] Bards are NOT a weak class. 1) He raises the power of all accompaning PCs by increasing their damage and attack abilities, by protecting them from some magical effects. He can use his spells to further augment him or other ones (hey, he can learn haste, Greater Magic Weapon, Displacement, Cat`s Grace, Bull`s Strength and many funny things more). 2) He is the only one who really has a great chance in social situation. The rogue typically has the possibility to learn the neccessary skills, but he has not the charisma - and he has to spend his skill points on skills like Open Lock/Disable Device, Search, Spot, Listen, Move Silently and Hide. He is often even better than a paladin (he often lacks the Skill Points and he does by far not have all of the neccessary skills) 3) A Bard has "Use Magic Device". This is one of the most powerfull skills, and unlike a Rogue he can use it (thanks to his Charisma) to full effectiveness. At higher levels he has no problems to use Wands of any kind (Wand of Fireball? Wand of Haste? Wand of Magig Missile? Wand of Cure Moderare?) 4) He can cast healing spells and if you have no cleric he is the best one to ask for this. (The Druid or Ranger will not always want to prepare healing spells) Playing Bard is fun. It is a character who will never shine out in combat - at least not obviously - hidden he can be one of the most important characters... Mustrum Ridcully PS: I have to admit that I would be happy to have more skill points, but who cares... :) [/QUOTE]

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