Inspire Awe plus Haunting Melody, combined with Intimidate and Never Outnumbered plus Imperious Command plus Fearsome armor (DotU version), a low level area effect spell like Sound Burst with Fell Frighten Spell, even Dreadful Wrath if you can qualify for it, will disrupt opponents enough that your party can just walk all over them. Something like Bard 8/ Dread Witch 1/ Nightmare Spinner 1/ Sublime Chord 2/ Dread Witch 4/ Nightmare Spinner 4 would be good, take the first level of each of those classes as early as possible for the class skills. You could also go with an Inspire Awe + fear effects build. If you don't want to use Virtuoso, a few single-level dips in something like Mindbender or Dragon Devotee can be extremely useful. Regarding the level build, you don't really need more than eight Bard levels, so Bard 8/ Virtuoso 2/ Sublime Chord 2/ Virtuoso 8 is typically the go-to build. You can pick up point-blank shot and precise shot and use a bow early, and those are also useful for ray attacks. There aren't a lot of feats you really need for this build, so you can easily go for some Inspire Courage optimization for a strong contribution in the early levels, and it's still useful later on with Melodic Casting to keep it active while casting spells. Obtain Familiar and Improved Familiar can be useful, especially since the familiar can use your UMD ranks. Versatile Spellcaster is pretty good for getting more higher level spells. Activate beast mode.Lyric Spell is pretty good, especially if you're going Bard 10/ SC 10 as you'll have tons of daily uses of bardic music. If you're thinking of a gish bard, go crusader/bard/jpm with the feat Song of the White Raven. Nifty if you want/need to effect undead.ġ8: jade phoenix mage, Tome of Battle/Book of Nine Swords.
Makes you really good at combat buffing.ġ7: dirgesinger, Libris Mortis. This one also gives you 9th level bard spells.Ĩ: paragnostic apostle, Complete Championġ6: war chanter, Complete Warrior. Pretty sweet.Ħ: sublime chord, Complete Arcane. It was freaking rad when I played it.Ģ: loremaster, Dungeon Master's Guide. The ones in bold are really good.ġ: eldritch knight, Dungeon Master's Guide. For more information about Wizards of the Coast or any of Wizards' trademarks or other intellectual property, please visit their website at Here's a few, plus the book they can be found i. For example, Dungeons & Dragons® is a trademark of Wizards of the Coast. This subreddit may use the trademarks and other intellectual property of Wizards of the Coast LLC, which is permitted under Wizards' Fan Site Policy. This subreddit is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored, or specifically approved by Wizards of the Coast LLC. Wizards of the Coast, Dungeons & Dragons, and their logos are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC in the United States and other countries. For a longer list, see the Related Subreddits wiki page.BoardGameGeeks Friendly Local Game Store List.Please read the rules wiki page for a more detailed break-down of each rule. If you believe a rule has been broken, please report the offending post/comment.Please use /r/lfg if you are trying to form a group. Follow the /r/DnD Mission Statement and the reddit content policy, including the provisions on unwelcome content and prohibited behavior.This includes blogs, art commissions, modules, maps, podcasts, streams, etc, whether you are charging for them or not.
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