Of the "Breach" series, this is the book I liked most till now. Many archetypes inside are inspired by true types of bards and minstrels that one could expect to meet in a medieval world- and I hadn't seen some of them since the Complete Bard's handbook, one of my favourite 2E manuals. Others are more classical fantasy, and each fills a much-needed niche.
The concept of fairy plays -dramas treated as something in between masterpieces and magical items- was a nice surprise. The holy rhapsodist too, a prestige class for bards/paladins, was much needed.
Many things from this book I will use. Many of them can be useful for any campaign out there!
A divine bloodrager-type class based on the oracle instead of the sorcerer? Yes, please!
d12 as a hit dice? Great! The ten base mysteries already adapted? Yes again!
I would have liked to choose the revelations, that are instead fixed at certain levels. But otherwise, I can only say- when can I have more mysteries? Archetypes? A psychic version, please?
I always dreamed to be a bard. But I'm too sedentary.
Maybe I could be a wizard. But I don't feel too powerful or patronizing... Well, whatever my pupils can say.
I love books. I could read all day long.
I don't feel like shooting fireballs or being in the first line in a fight. I'm more the one to search informations, help my companions from the back, and find alternative solutions... solving riddles and blabbering about ancient epics and heroes of sagas.
I'm more the one who carries around a whole library of tomes, and doesn't talk the evening around the fire because I'm reading.
Yes, I'm a Librarian. A half-bard, half-occultist, all-erudite who gets her knowledge, power and skills from tomes, and can share all that with her friends.
Just some issues. Books for elemental schools? Books for groups of spells different from traditional schools? MORE books to carry around? Ability to study spells from other lists? I'm waiting for the archetypes!
