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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 179179" data-attributes="member: 2013">Warning - Shameless Plug!Warning!  Shameless plug...If you're down on the Bard's Music Abilities, you might seriously consider my humble little PDF publication, the Enchiridion of Mystic Music (available exclusively at <a href="http://www.RPGNow.com" target="_blank">http://www.RPGNow.com</a> )... 70+ pages for $5.Instead of 6 abilities (as the bard currently sits), this book presents 84 (there is a very modest cost to the bard to learn the new ones, but that should be expected for game balance).  In fact, every Rank of Perform from 3 to 23 has four (count 'em, four) associated abilities in this book.  You also get a set of Feats for upping them and six prestige classes - five of them stack with the bard as far as music ability (the 6th is kind of an anti-bard - the class is to bard as blackguard is to paladin - and so is rather anti-music ability).Check out <a href="http://www.cooleys.org/publishing/" target="_blank">http://www.cooleys.org/publishing/</a> - a modest little site to be sure, but you can have a gander at the Table of Contents for free (check out the Downloads link).I liked the variation Monte's bard brought.  I wasn't as big of a fan of the fact that if I'm already playing a bard and want to use Monte's, I basically have to throw out my existing bard and start from scratch.  The Enchiridion of Mystic Music is TOTALLY modular - your existing bard does not need to be modified one little fig in order to gain a benefit from it.Myself, if I'm creating a new bard, I'll probably look to try Monte's.  If I have an existing bard, I'll go with EoMM.  But then, you probably expect that from me, since I wrote it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Sorry 'bout all that.  Shameless plug over.Anyway, that PDF was my solution to the "broken" bard.  I think the skill points are fine, the spellcasting is fine, the bardic knowledge is fine, but he just needed a little more spice in the music abilities (okay a LOT more spice)... but he *CAN* get that with the right publications. <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=":)" />--Spencer "The Sigil" CooleyS.T. Cooley Publishing</blockquote>

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