CORE Half-Elf Bard


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So, according to the CORE Campaign Challenge, I'll be playing a half-elf bard.

I'm thinking about a mithril full-plate, shield-bashing paladin 2 or 3/bard x, maybe with a whip, maybe buff focused...

Any ideas welcome, the only hard rules are: half-elf, bard. Soft rule: utilize the multiclass abilities of the half-elf.


Abyssian wrote:

So, according to the CORE Campaign Challenge, I'll be playing a half-elf bard.

I'm thinking about a mithril full-plate, shield-bashing paladin 2 or 3/bard x, maybe with a whip, maybe buff focused...

Any ideas welcome, the only hard rules are: half-elf, bard. Soft rule: utilize the multiclass abilities of the half-elf.

Um, how about breastplate. Gotta cast those spells!


Is the soft rule something you set for yourself or something the challenge set for you? I'm generally not too fond of multiclassing, but it could work. Only I'd suggest a two-hander instead of a shield in the off-hand - if you are multiclassing with a full BAB class it should not be too hard to be a secondary combatant anyway. Something like a glaive could be interesting, and you can tie it conceptually with the character being a fan of Shelyn (who happens to have paladins and love bards*).

*Well, she loves most anybody, being the goddess of love and all, but she reallly has a thing for bards.


The soft rule is soft. That is, it is alterable, or even ignorable if I like the concept. I don't want to waste the racial trait, but I'll sacrifice for some sweet single-class options.


I'm down with a Shelyn zealot. I haven't played one. Beauty and such- I could imagine a half-elf enjoying that.


The racial class is interesting, but I really wish there were more options to trade it without trading the skill focus. Anyway, that doesn't really matter for a core character...

The classes can mesh well enough. Just how much you want to mesh the classes depends on you - imo either could be a dip, a few paladin levels give you proficiencies, smite and divine grace, a few bard levels get you a slew of abilities and versatile performance for skill check substitution (and paladins are really skill-starved). Perform Oratory for example can be awesome for a paladin who likes to go ham (which, come on, is pretty much iconic paladin behavior. You can also use it to pick up a few potentially useful skills paladins don't normally have access to, like intimidate. Also, remember the half-elf skill focus? It works really well if you have a signature perform skill you are using with versatile performance - such as if you only dip bard and it's your only versatile performance skill.

By the way, were traits considered core?


The web enhancement for traits is CORE legal.

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