We're playing with a 4/5th Dwarf party (there's a tiefling)
1. Duettist Bard (yep, I'm playing a Dwarven Bard)
2. Rogue/Slayer (the tiefling)
3. Fighter/Brawler
4. Forgepriest
5. Magus
Due an unfortunate encounter with some shadows...the magus was killed and his player (and the player of the Forgepriest) decided they didn't want to continue.
We finished Burnt Offerings with a little bit of help from some NPCs, but now that we're into Book 2, we'd like to find a new player or two to join us (we're currently playing every other Tuesday night on Roll20).
If we can't find anyone else to join, and we continue as a party of 3, I'm wondering what my Bard could do to pick up the slack. Storywise it could make sense to multiclass into cleric or Oracle (the magus was my PCs brother and his death and subsequent raising as a shadow has greatly troubled him-the party has since returned and destroyed the shadows). However, I reallllly wanted to stay full Bard. But I also don't want us to get murdered every session.
My PC's build
5th level Dwarven Bard
Str 12
Dex 10
Con 12
Int 12
Wis 10
Cha 16 (currently 18 due to stat bump item)
Feats:
Improved Initiative
Extra Performance
Flagbearer
My versatile performance is Oratory. Right now my UMD is +12
Spell-wise I have taken the healing ones available and of course glitterdust, gallant inspiration, etc.
So basically I'm trying to figure out where to go from here. Thoughts/opinions/etc?