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That first part is untrue, at least in pen-and-paper. Bard songs last three rounds after the bard stops performing, more with some feat. I abuse this a lot by taking the silent song feat (or whatever it's called) and playing the same bard song continuously until we get into a random encounter. Then I have a song up already and can juggle through various other songs getting back just in time to refresh the one that's about to run out. In dungeons, this doesn't work as well because bardic music uses are limited per day, but random encounters are almost always one-a-day so yeah.

Bards don't really get their strength from their spells though. The spells are secondary in the same way that ranger spells are secondary. Bards get their strength from everyone else. The more people on their side, the more powerful they become. This is especially why the static diplomacy DC is hilariously overpowered in the hands of a bard. Nothing like convincing everyone to oppose the one guy you don't like, then stacking Melody + Harmony and hilariously boosting the effects of your songs with Words of Creation (No limit to use, by the way)

Seriously, the only downside to Words of Creation is (necessary minimal perform ranks)d4 in subdual damage. WOOOO.

I mean, all of that is fine and balanced with a group of three or four others, but that's just dumb if you've got an army of named NPCs on your side. That, among other things, is why you ignore the hell out of static DCs for diplomacy.

The spells that the bards got in 2E were powerful. Actually, the spin that I used for the greater part of the game was Defenisive Spin as you can easily null the root effect. Improved Haste gave me a nice nine attacks per round and Tenser's Transformation gave me an amazing (for 2E) 300 health. With the spin my armor was at around -24. Also, their songs could be played any number of times per day, and that Improved Bard Song ability really made it kick some a**. There is a cheese with it that you just make a bunch of clones and have all of them play the song... it stacks. There is a bug with a Wild Mage which sets your surge chance to 5%, removes delay time between spells and lets you cast spells without limit.

I loved dualclassing. It kicked so much a**. Much better than multiclassing.

Though convincing Irenicus to join your team would be total hax.

I hated that b***h.

Irenicus was a badass.

I just thought the story (as I remember it) behind Irenicus was really cool.

Bodhi was a skank.

Oh, and that one hidden lich boss or whatever was a pain, too.

Aggravation.

I decide to hold off on trying to get a Wii and, of course, now that I'm looking around, the only website I knew of where I could get upcoming wii shipment info doesn't do this anymore.



On the bright side, Nintendo's Fiscal Year just started now, so with luck, it should be easier to find one.

Dunno, Kozo.

Seems like most if not all of the RPs here are dead... mostly my fault, I think, but meh. It happens. I'm a busy person. Not as busy now that I don't have WoW (stupid computer dying ><), but still pretty busy.

Most of the RPing I do now is over AIM <_<