Kitsune Bards

[Silvyr]

I was reading the Advanced Race Guide (ARG) about possible race/class combinations and saw that the Kitsune is said to make an excellent Bard. i was wondering if anyone has attempted this combination and if so could you tell me your experiences with it? thank you and i appreciate it ^^

[Icyshadow]

I've been considering it, and taking the Magical Tail ability eight times while doing so.

[SlimGauge]

I've just redesigned my Kitsune bard from a Dawnflower Dervish into a Lotus Geisha. I just gave up entirely on doing any melee damage to focus on Enchantment and buffing. Without the Inspire Courage usable on others, it just didn't feel like a bard. I'm using the Flagbearer feat from the Inner Sea World Guide. The bite attack isn't terribly useful, so I'm maximizing the use of Agile and Kitsune Magic, but I'm not going to spend feats on the extra tails. I might spend a feat to be able to turn into an actual fox.

There's another tread where someone is trying to make a sword saint AND take all the tail feats.

[Yosarian]

A friend of mine has a kitsune bard with a very low strength (it was originally 5, although she boosted it as soon as she could). She uses a crossbow as her main physical weapon (since there's no strength penalty to damage with a crossbow, and it uses dex to hit, it works just fine, although she did ask the fighter to carry around most of her extra ammo, lol), and has taken point blank shot to make her better at it. Other then that, the character runs heavily to enchantment spells; the bard has a lot of good ones and being a kitsune makes you even better at them if you take the Kitsune magic trait. She's also the party face, and between the social skills, enchantment spells, high charisma, and bard performance abilities is really good at that.

It's probably not the most optimal build, but it was pretty cool.

[Hayato Ken]

Kitsune Lotus Geisha Bard with the Flagbearer Feat and perhaps Arcane Strike and other stuff should be doing really good.

Ask your party help you acquire magical flags later on, those are really awesome too.