That’s what I was trying to tell you a year back or so, Joshua. Sacred Exorcist is 3/4 BAB and has pretty lax entry requirements, so you can round out another BAB if you went something like Bard 7/other 3 before Sublime Chord. Tome of Battle stuff: I’ve only ever thought of bards as player characters, not how to make a very good NPC/enemy. When it comes to juggling bardic music, is there an easy to way optimize their use before I get my hands on rare items or should I take Lingering Song? According to 3.5 official material, you can come in and out of sublime chord as much as you please. Which is pretty high op, but I try not to abuse it and instead only Persist buffs as a way of not needing to bother the DM with prefight buffs. I went totally opposite after my warrior died and went Bard / Lyric Thaumaturge (we are at lvl 10) then going onto Sublime Chord. The bard has some really nice options for alternative class features. So it could definitely be a trap without good Con saves. Thunder Clap: An AoE is nice for the valor who likes to wade into combat. However, if you look at the other races, you’ll see that the gnome is solidly worse than the 3-star races (Star Elf, Gruwaar, Illumian, Spellscale). Albeit entry requirement means your either ex-monk or rogue to get evasion (or ninja) and would be MAD with depending on charisma and wisdom for casting stats (unless take divine bard who depends on more wisdom anyways). If you have an odd Str/Con. This can let you escape while your hands are tied. I intend on getting a full spellcaster for epic spellcasting at 20+. I’ve added that to the list of items. Hey Josh, thanks for the mention. 3.- Inspired Fight, all other effects of bardic music: In the text, explain that for every 3 character levels you select an extra ally to give him the effects of this ability. An incantatrix can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + her Int modifier. If you choose Reikhardt as paragon you get a terrible level 1, starting from level 2 the PrC stacks for inspire courage and from level 3rd you get Leaf was designed for a city / intrigue game, and I felt like it didn’t make sense there. I’m looking forward to those bard melee builds, specially the bard/crusader and bard/wardblade combinations. 😀. Let’s compare their class features. Then, when picking your spells, focus on spells that improve your combat abilities. In the Book of Eldritch Might 1 it also has it as a bard spell, page 18. Not Bard specific but the Perform (Dance) requirement fits nicely. Apologies for the scatterbrained comments. The value of the feat really hinges on Accompaniment, which means having something like Dragonfire Inspiration + Inspire Courage or something like Heartfire Fanner or abusing Individual Performance with Words of Creation. Definitely cool. (+9 with Inspirational Boost). The caster need not prepare the spell in metamagic form or in a higher-level spell slot; the incantatrix simply modifies the spell during the casting. I just want to add my melee build in my current campaign, since you seem to be lacking in the examples of melee bards: I’m going 5 bard/2 battle howler of Gruumsh/9 swiftblade/3 battle howler of Gruumsh/1 bard to finish. It also allows you to put down buffs without concentration (glyph + invisibility). Plus some other fun trick, like darkvision. lot more. If you get something good, please send it to me so I can include it. Make sure you keep that in mind while developing your character. If you’re in the mood, put him on one of my character sheets and I’d like to link to him: This is in the same vein as the Barbarian & Ranger Character Optimization articles that we have previously hosted. Bard 7/Crusader 2/Jade Phoenix Mage 1/Sublime Chord 2/Abjurant Champion 5/Jade Phoenix Mage +3. Of the two, the one I found most convincing was that it’s a set of songs that With this it is enough to get Inspire Greatness, Song of Freedom etc, because the book says x level OR (x+3) Rang in Perform. – missed casting levels from GP and NS are prior to SC but SC prereqs are still met, so SC can level fully from 11-20 DPR: A valor who starts with fighter 1 for archery style, and con saves, then get’s swift quiver for lots of attacks. You’ll notice that many of my builds leave bard after 6 (and take chaos music to get inspire greatness and +1 inspire courage). You gain no new spells either. Your choice in ability scores is going to depend a lot on what sort of bard you want to be. This means a second level of Crusader. All masterwork instruments give a +2 bonus to perform. Slightly less total then prayer of healing, but less likely to waste it with over-heals. Drow Elf: Darkvision, +Cha, and a few extra spells per day. For an NPC or encounter, I mean. This is a really good idea. What book is BoEM? If you’re the primary healer you might want to boost. My guess is that the most powerful version will be a hybrid debuffer and other things. Rogue 3 : Arcane Trickster gives you spell slots and can grab mage hand for a lot of fun utility. Aria of Everywhere (**) – as dimension door, only 25 + 5ft/SotS lvl range and you can’t bring anyone with you. All of Cloaked Dancer’s dances require concentration to maintain, and typically maintaining concentration is a standard action. Hello Joshua. Since there’s so many of these, I’m stretching the normal ratings a bit. Here are the options available if you take this feat without any other initiator classes (i.e. What is your opinion about this “OR” thing? If you do that, it will Banishing smite is the only one that works with ranged attacks, but it’s more of a finisher. On other hand, “Bard 6/Mindbender 1/Virtuoso 3/Sublime Chord 2/Virtuoso 7/Sublime Chord 1” means that you progress bard spellcasting with Virtuoso and have only 3 lvl of Sublime Chord spellcasting. 🙂. …To expand on the above, since I hit the “post comment” button too soon – I want to get as much use out of the Perform skill as I can, since Skill Focus is required for SotS, and on top of that vampires get a bonus to their Charisma. Amazing resource but why is the Aasimar rated higher than the Celadrin when the latter seems to synergize better and is ostensibly a half elf? Better if your abusing magic jar. I’ve explored some other handbooks – including other classes and this is by far my favorite so far. So arguably you don’t actually want to burn a feat on SotWR… which is why getting a better Stance is a good idea. It’s the same except as noted below, “The caster’s Perform check each That being said, it’s about the same. Fugue in spell compendium is an erata of Fugue of Tvash-Prull from Dragon 328 pg 70. That is to say: Cleric 7 / Heartfire Fanner 3 / Radiant Servant of Flame (Palor) 2, it would be a character of level 12, with 15 skill ranks in any skill of performance and therefore would have: * Words of Creation won’t benefit anything other than inspire courage, inspire competence, inspire greatness, and inspire heroics. There’s no mechanical limitation on the length of inspire courage. bard 6 warweaver 3 virtuoso 1 sublime chord 2/ warweaver 2/ virtuoso rest, Oops messed up a bit on the build bard 7/warweaver 2/virtuoso 1/sublime chord 2/war weaver 3/ virtuoso 5 might also look early levels of Lyric thaumaturge instead of some of the bard levels and maybe instead of the virtuoso levels, Human Bard I allow it at my table. give you ranks. It’s a nice buff on my point of view. Sweet, added it. Though Valor Bards can make this work with expertise athletics. numbers. check’s result. Being able to release a precast set of buff spells as a move action is awesome for a bard. I can estimate that you took the 2 Paladin levels in the middle of the Bard ones, hence fulfilling the 9 ranks before touching LT, but the Bard Music can’t be filled that way unless you took some weird Feat for it. Resilient (Con): Your best spells are concentration spells. What about Bard 6/Lyric Thaumaturge 4/Sublime Chord 2/Virtuoso 8, aka the Bardest Bard that ever Barded? (rogue 10 with reliable talent is a close second). Very useful e pretty looking as well. to embed a dart into a wooden surface or stick a sweetgum ball to someone’s back. As long as they occupy the targets space at the end of their move, the swarm critters will deal damage which now includes the boost from dragonfire inspiration. I would say that Lyric Spell is outright better than Metamagic Song when it comes to Persistent magic builds. Sharpshooter: Adds some damage for valor bards. I forgot to ask another thing. New person joining the group will likely play a fighter, to ease him into gameplay. The good: And make no mistake, Greenbound Summons + IC or DFI is terrifying. “Clean” poisonous fungus from a magical sword found in a cave, without touching it. I’d look at the Lyric Thaumaturge, Abjurant Champion, and Eldritch Knight prestige classes. So you can just pick perform Dance, pick this feat and suddenly you can use perform Sing and string instruments at max skill rank, suddenly a lot more things are open to you such as the various instruments up on your list. Oh man that is a good find. I would give it *** as a dip and ** as full progression. But what you want really depends on your build and campaign. Cast Time – According to the MIC (85) activating a wand takes the same aount of time as it takes to Half-Elf Bard 1-6 / Heartfire Fanner 1-5 / Sublime Chord 1-2 / War weaver 1-5 / Sublime Chord 3-4 I’ll have to check out those other items, but thanks for posting them. campaign. Then I see that you need a widsom bonus😢.

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