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Nope, Wild Mages still beat Bards.

Imprisonment at level one. Fun fun.

My DM let me be an artificer and gave me 100 gold with which I bribed people and used my business skills to raise some more money and rent a lab... which began my Warforged army of DOOOOOOM!

But of course a player can kill him. Mindless creatures as well. Not to mention traps and so forth.

Then note the flaws of your own 'godly Wild Mage.' Hey, wow, great, on the off-chance that your little wild magic effect grants an imprisonment, that's once out of, oh, say, how many players that can just walk up and own you with a couple of hits? That's because, well, mages of any sort really aren't known for their hit points. Traps could also wipe the floor with your Wild Mage, and he'd probably fall sooner than that high-diplomacy bard Soloist spoke of.

And besides, players would sooner attack a Wild Mage than they'd attack a bard. Bards are far more entertaining.

I think you are understimating the fact that the bard's godlike abilities dont spawn from any of his spells, weapons, armor, feats, instruments, or items.

He just talks. This vastly overwhelming ability to dominate 95% of encounters in D&D both hostile and otherwise is overpowered enough, but that's when the bard invests a completely normal amount of points in Charisma and Perform(It requires a base charisma of 16, and at least 3 ranks in perform or diplomacy per level in 3E or 3.5E, average for a bard at best). He still has a wide array of ridiculously powerful spells and songs at his command, in case, gods forbid, he has to fight.

I understand that my entire point rests on a flaw in the prewritten mechanics of the D&D ruleset (Static DCs = lose), but exploited properly there is literally nothing in the universe an epic leveled bard can't do.

Can he teach a golden robot about H-E-A-R-T and the power of love?

Cannot compute data: "Haveadrink"

Wild mages are more powerful by themselves. Bards are more powerful because they are never by themselves. I figure that you can get the RP aspect in there too if you're not so focused on how quickly you can destroy a thing that you forget you're making a character, not a catapult. Of course, the overpoweredness of the classes is based almost entirely on laughably enormous oversights in the game system that any reasonable DM would patch up with simple judgement. No, you cannot convince the level 25 evil king of half the world to be your level 17 bard's cohort because he managed to roll a 27 diplomacy. No, you cannot do that stuff with a wild mage because, frankly, the class is as ill-conceived as exotic weapon master. Besides, it's based upon the allowance for a physical nature of magic that is not always present in every campaign setting. I would, for example, have a hard time letting someone be a wild mage in a low-magic setting. Many high-magic settings also would be not conducive to wild magic because the magic system and/or nature of magic in that world is described in excess detail.

If I were a DM and a player made a bard only because he expected to be able to diplomacy anyone anywhere, no matter what, I'd laugh in his face as his character went through gross disfigurements lowering his charisma to levels at which it is impossible to even cast his spells (not that those are the real draw of the bard anyway). If I were a DM and a player wanted to roll a wild mage solely to exploit the ridiculous oversights in the class design, I'd simply point out that the campaign setting I'm in does not have the kind of physical condition under which wild magic can be manipulated, let alone exist. Or I'd let him redesign the class to cover up what flaws there are while retaining whatever legitimate things about the class he liked. I'm a nice guy.

But yeah, for bards, if you follow the ridiculous static DC, you don't take points in any skill except diplomacy. You just spent points on languages.

As fantastic as Battlestar Galatica is and has remained, come on guys. I predicted three out of five of the "ZOMGTWISTS" that happened on the season finale.

Also: The, say, three RPs that I was brewing didn't pan. They were too geared toward having a main character, and that's not good for RPs

What is up?

Plus, she's STARBUCK. Killing her would be like remaking the original Star Wars trilogy, except with Han Solo dying in the first ten minutes.

I called Tigh and Tyrol too. Anders and the president's aide chick I didn't catch because they haven't been really important characters at all until now.

Everyone was seriously like "ADAMA IS A CYLON IOLOOLOLOL" But gimme a break dudes. Cylons aren't replacements of people who exist and they're planning a prequel series about the Adama family. Unless they're planning to trash all that, neither of the Adamas are cylons.

And no way in hell is Baltar a Cylon. Starbuck? Probably.

LOL SPOILERS

Within BGII the Wild Mage was the most powerful class in the game, hands down. There was a nifty bug to go along with it. As for Bards, a Blade could easily demolish a single class fighter, no problem there. I'd sacrifice some of my hitpoints, weapon proficiency as well as the use of some items at the beginning of the game. Blades beat fighters in almost every single way possible. Thieves were overpowered. There were bugs and cheeses with many of the caster classes, including the bard and excluding the priests (although an Assassin/Cleric kicked the most a** for backstabing) and yeah, I never got into paladins. They don't feel right. NWN... one level of Shadowdancer with a rogue character and you're all set for the rest of the game. Backstab then hide right in front of their face. Fun fun.