Hey everyone, going to be going to Kintargo for Hell”s Rebels
Going to make a Bard, I think I am leaning towards just a straight vanilla bard and using the Half-Elf race. Any and all suggestions are welcome. Looking for a good support and jack of all trades build with no dump stats.
parameters: 25pt build, need 1 campaign trait and 1 other trait.
Thanks in advance.
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A Bard with the Archetypes Duettist and Soundstriker can do some serious damage in later levels. The duettist Bards familiar can use the same songs so when you gain the ability to use the 4d6+charisma song from soundstriker you can churn out some competitive damage in the later levels. They also keep inspire courage.
You say Jack of All Trades but you will need to decide some form of specialization, be it ranged, melee or spells. Feats are a finite resource.
Half elf can use the human favored class bonus for extra spells known, good choice there.
You can use the elven familiarity to get exotic weapon proficiency for whatever weapon you want, or just go with a long spear reach build with combat reflexes.
I'm a big fan of Flagbearer, bonuses that don't cost resources are great.
Lingering Song triples your performance rounds.
Diva in Training seems like the obvious campaign trait choice for a hard in Hells Rebels. For the other trait you gotta decide on your build. Initiative is usually a strong choice, but you could find some combat options. Armor Expert for example would enable you to run around in mithral breastplate later on.
What are you wanting to be doing in combat? Spells, bows, or melee? Once we know what you're wanting to do we can help with a build.
Thanks for the information, I never heard of the duettist. I will look into that. I am thinking reactionary for my regular trait.
When it comes to combat it is a six man party, so we already have three melee characters. I am leaning towards reach weapons as that would be less feat intensive. I do picture him more spell oriented as I believe I am the only arcane caster. We made three characters each and rolled to see which ones we played. As of right now, there is:
1) Bard (me)
2) TWF fighter
3) Slayer
4) Hospitaler
5) Dwarf Cleric
6) Occult something...
Thanks for the tip on the human favoured class benefit a half elf could take, I thought they could only take the extra rounds of bard song.
Tentatively I have
Str. 13
Dex. 16
Con 13
Int. 14
Wis. 12
Cha 15
The party will definitely benefit from Flagbearer.
You may even consider VMC for more options, cavalier can offer some team buffs and your own smite pool.
Otherwise, build for a reach cleric, but as a bard. You'll always have something to do.
There's a half elf variant that gives up everything but low light vision and gets +2 CHA and +2 whatever else.