Bard Escape Artist

[Aeris Fallstar]

I already tried this on the advice board but there were no takers so, I'll try it here too:

First off, since I am playing in a campaign that revolves around politics and roleplaying, I am not worried about being useless or underpowered.

That being said, I want to build a bard based on Harry Houdini. I want to remove all access to spells and substitute with some thing else.

I still want him to be able to combat song/vocal attacks, etc. But I want him to be able to do so through the power of his presence and possibly mesmerism/counter-hypnosis.

I like playing challenging PCs. I just need some more ideas.

[Aeris Fallstar]

I was hoping for at least some thoughts. Maybe the RPG Superstar contest sucked all of the air out of the place?

[Malag]

Illusionist bard is closest that came to my mind. Other than that, bard has many spells which are immediate actions or that grants bonuses or rerolls. Maybe focus on those.

[Bearded Ben]

Are you asking for advice on building a bard who isn't focused on spells, or are you asking for someone to design a spell-less bard archetype for you?

[Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan]

Take 2 levels of Bard (for your first Versatile Performance), and from then on take Rogue levels and keep your two perform skills up, so you can do most of the Bardic Performance stuff, but not be burdened with more spells.

[MiniGM]

i was working on a spell less bard archetype for a while, i just never finished it up. I am happy to give it to you if you want it

[Aeris Fallstar]

I'm just trying to brainstorm. I like a challenge and my DMV challenged me to play a bard. So I thought, I'll show him, I''ll go one better.

But I am having trouble with it. But I feel like it is a worthy concept.

[Aeris Fallstar]

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