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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khaalis" data-source="post: 4020635" data-attributes="member: 2167">There are basically 2 schools of thoughts on how we will see the bard.School 1) Arcane Leader - released either in an "Arcane" splatbook or as a DDI release to the PHB.School 2) From hints in Races & Classes some believe the Bard will be released in PHB2 as part of the "Primal" (a.k.a. nature) power source that is hinted at containing the Barbarian (is to Druid as Paladin is to Cleric) and Druid. Sorcerer is also hinted at as being more Primal power source than Arcane with "wild" powers and a direct link to the Elemental Chaos.My vote is that the Bard will likely be a DDI release for the PHB. They will need some really heavy hitting material to draw people to the DDI expansion content, and bringing in some of the dropped classes makes a lot of sense with Bard (arcane leader) and Monk (martial striker or controller) coming back for classes and possibly Gnome for races. However, they could hold out and try to use these classes as selling points for splat book expansions to the Power Sources. However, if they do, I have no idea what they could offer of enough value to convince people to pay for the DDI content.JMHO.</blockquote>