Juggler Bard Build

[Seeker 26]

I am playing in a group of players who are all playing bards. So far our group consists of:
Dervish dancer bard
Archeologist bard
Magician bard
Dualist bard
???

I am the undecided. We are all playing through Bard20. I'd like to possibly play a "juggler" (ranged tactics toolbox) bard. I'm trying to take advantage of being to effectively have 3 items/weapons in hand at the same time. How can I best take advantage of this?

*We are able to use races from the "Advanced Race Guide" as well.

Thanks in advance.

[Eltacolibre]

Not really anything special for that, you might as well just play a regular bard.

Voice of the Wild if you want to add some divine spells to your party or watersinger (Undine racial archetype) if you want to play a waterbender like from the show Avatar Korra/Avatar the last airbender.

[Secret Wizard]

Draconic Yapper Kobold plz. With Kobold Confidence, you'll have the highest FORT saves in the group.

[Sneaky Snake]

Could try and take advantage of the performance diversity among your teammates and play a court bard to debuff the enemy, there isn't really a bard archetype or race that helps with the juggler side of the idea though, just feats and gear.

[Belabras]

I love the idea of the all Bard party.

That said, the Juggler on it's own doesn't seem that bad ass. That said, being able to have 3 weapons in hand at one time... That says gunslinger to me.

Either a level dip or the needed feats to get you guns is a strong play.

[cnetarian]

sound striker would be my choice, and it appears to stack with juggler. not sure how to use juggler though.

[notpsychoyet]

Stick with the Juggler just for the coolness of it. But more than that, off the top of my head I can think of a whole bunch of advantages to having 3 or more items in hand while keeping one hand free for spell casting, deflect/snatch arrows, etc.

- Juggle three different wands
- Juggle a wand, a rapier, and an alchemist's fire
- At 5th, juggle a wand, another wand, and your rapier, while grabbing the bomb that alchemist just lobbed your way and toss it back
- At 8th you get your second attack...and now you're juggling 4 items and snatching and throwing back whatever comes your way...juggle a wand, and three magical rapiers with varying enhancements...hit him with one, and then the other as part of your full attack.
- Or as Belabras suggested, take Amateur Gunslinger or the 1 level dip and juggle loaded pistols

Juggler is where it's at, if only for the sheer craziness.

[moon glum]

You need to get the two weapon fighting feat and shield proficiency. Then, I suppose, at high enough level you could have a shield, and use two weapons, and have a free hand for deflect arrows and somatic components. If you can find a one handed reach weapon, that would also be good, as you could get reach attacks and attacks of opportunity while also fighting at 5' reach.

Since it takes two hands to load a pistol, and juggler/gunslinger (pistolero) is cool because you can have two weapon fighting and pistols and reload them both as a free action with rapid reload + alchemical cartridges. At higher level, you could throw in a shield if you somehow got proficiency.

It would be cool if there were a feat that let you extend two weapon fighting an additional weapon you were juggling.