| Tyler MacAuley |
As a first impression of this class (since I haven't had much time to read the playtest) is that it's...boring. I had extremely high hopes for the Skald, but overall I have to agree that it is lacking in class features and it seriously requires a party to be built around it in order to succeed. The class features it does get, while making sense from a historical standpoint, seem tacked on in a mechanical standpoint, especially spell kenning. Why would my bardarian be able to cast a wizard spell if spellcasting isn't his focus? What I expected was a bard who can charge into the fray with the rest of the fighters, but with his medium base attack bonus and lack of any real defensive capabilities he really just can't do it. This is, for me, the most disappointing class in the playtest so far, and I hope that the final version lives up more to its potential as a warrior than just a bard with a couple of abilities swapped out.