This bard keeps all the best features that people look for in a bard: Bardic Knowledge, Inspire Courage, Versatile Performance. In addition, familiars offer a lot wonderful benefits and capability. This is a hard trade, but at fourth level your familiars can perform for you, giving you incredible action economy - allowing you to get off other actions in your turn other than just the inspire courage. You trade off bardic knowledge for a familiar. (Dip: versatility +1 power: 0) Versatility +1, Power +2 It can be very powerful with pre-planning or a teamwork buddy, but most players won't find the tradeoff of versatile performance for Teamwork feats useful without a reliable way of triggering those teamwork feats outside of your bardic performance. It is also not a bad archetype for a paired build with another PC who takes teamwork feats, or if you take a dip with bloodrager for a valet familiar. (2 level dip: Versatility +1: Power -0) Versatility: 0, Power -1ĭip with something that can self-trigger or give away teamwork feats (I am looking at you, Cavalier) and this archetype becomes something. I love that it gets precise shot as a bonus feat. On the other hand, if your vision is to be a great bow bard who can dish out the occasional blast, this a pretty awesome archetype for you. This bard trades off a lot, including bardic knowledge, for being an exceptional ranged combatant and for having a few wizard spells added to her spell list, especially given the diminished spell casting. (2 level Dip: Versatility -1, Dip: Power +1) Versatility -1, Power +1 On the other hand, this will have much stronger skills+bardic knowledge, while the Evangelist Cleric will have more channels and 9th level spell casting. This may best be compared to Evangelist Cleric, which I think is a stronger cleric/bard hybrid. If this was based channels off of charisma like Clerics or even oracles, I'd like it a lot better. Trades off the versatile performance skill boost for the ability to channel energy a few times a day. (2 level dip: Versatility +1, Power +0) Versatility +1, Power+0 More spells known is always a slight power up for a bard. It can attract rat swarms like the pied piper and it gets Summon's Nature Ally spells just added to its spells known. It does get two very interesting abilities, though. (Dip: Versatility +0, Dip: Power +0) Versatility +0, Power+1Ĭonsidered by most a "meh" archetype, it plays mostly like a standard bard who can also talk with animals.
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