Best Bard for Gunslinging?

[Cathulhu]

One of my favorite builds is Gunslinger 1/Bard X.

I've recently been trying to decide which Bard archetype is best for this build. I like vanilla, Archaeologist is really fun, Arcane Duelist is great but you waste a lot of the bonus feats you get on ranged combat...

Anyway. If you are taking one level of vanilla gunslinger, whats your favorite flavor of Bard to go with it, and why?

Thanks!

[blahpers]

Lotus geisha. Because it amuses me.

[Soul]

i stopped in because i like theorycraft, and making fun/crazy builds, but i will mention that no bard should ever EVER be... defiled... with a shooty-shooty-bang-bang... EVER. bards are pure, wholesome, unadulturated fun. shooty-shooty-bang-bangs just break scenarios any way they can, and ruin it for everyone else.

Year of the Shadow Lodge:

In year of the shadow lodge your group (being up to 5 or 6 tables) is constantly harassed by a cr 16 Ancient Black Dragon that is meant to be a feature throughout the scenario to inspire terror in lower levels and challenge in higher levels. when our scenario was run a 9th level musket master killed the dragon with 267 hit points less than halfway through the scenario in two rounds. two. the entire rest of the time our special gm said "well, if we didnt have a gunslinger there would be a huge black dragon spewing acid at you. you lose 18 non-lethal hitpoints and the worlds memory of what should have been sweeps by over-head, then regain it as the world snaps back to normal)

[Diminuendo]

Archaeologist could let you step around needing the gunslinger levels at all. At level 4 you can select the Grit Rogue Talent which will give you the Amature Gunslinger Feat as well as a free Grit Feat. All you need is to take Firearm training (though the Extra Rogue Talent Feat) before level 4 to get it.

If you wanted to get Dex to damage you could also dip 3 levels of Trench Figher.

[Cathulhu]

No Answers I wanted.

[Charlie Bell]

Vanilla bard. Buff yourself and all your friends. I got no love for selfish bards.

[XMorsX]

I also suggest Archaeologist bard, combined with Fate's Favored it can give impressive damage. The flavor seems stronger with it too. I would avoid going straight bard though, as you lack any way to get stat-to-damage. I choose to ignore Trench Figher, as it comes from a campaign with Guns Everywhere, not you typical one.

If you are a Gunslinger and take the Amature Gunslinger feat you change it for extra grit.

Here are two variations:

- More bard: Mysterious Stranger 1 (Cha to damage) / Trophy Hunter ranger 2 (take back Quick clear) / Arcaeologist bard 17

or for a more damaging but less of a bard variation:

- Musket Master (or Pistolero) 5 / Trophy Hunter ranger 2 (take the deed that adds Cha to damage) / Archaeologist Bard 13

The former is similar to your build, but takes two lvls of trophy hunter ranger to take back Quick Clear and give a solution to missfires.

The latter achieves BOTH Dex and Cha to Damage. My only issue with such a build is that you cannot Wisdom, so you become more MAD.