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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Inconsequenti-AL" data-source="post: 1589313" data-attributes="member: 6584">The 'magnificent bastard' prestige... sounds good. <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=":)" />TracerBullet42 - Could the bard could use Perform: Inspiring Speach, Heroic leadership or something similar. I'm sure many GMs would allow you to use that for the bardic 'music'... It's got 'vocal' components and the abilities would seem to fit - with the possible exception to the countersong?Snoweel - I get quite where you coming from there. Social skills are not going to make a general, even if they don't hurt the political side of the job. However, I think I'd rather serve under someone with a sound knowledge of tactics, history, etc - rather than someone who's just 'good in a fight'? And the bard is the best candidate for that - their bardic knowledge arguably makes them more 'sagey' than even a wizard... certainly more so than the poor fighter - who just seems to know how to use weapons?Although I guess those generals you mentioned are all going to have worked their way up through the ranks and are likely to be pretty well trained and dangerous...I hadn't figured the non-lawful aspect of the class. I figure a chaotic army is less likely to make use of the bards skills - probably a better environment for a Barbarian Warlord to run things! I supose a NG bard could still do the job... Or that the job is just as likely to go to the kings favorite cousin than someone who's actually good at the job...I do like clerical leaders for armies. Who doesn't love a horde of pumped up zealots running around the countryside... although the 'dirty' nature of war and politics could cause problems for followers of some of the more LG gods?I guess what I'm getting at is I think the bards abilities fit best with my perception of a generals job... even if the default 'fluff' text doesn't.</blockquote>

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