The best bards are Frontline tanks. Get enemies to attack you with persuasion/well RP’d cutting words for max feelings damage, get blasted, inspire the party to the acts of heroism they will need to save their idiot bard
Just a bard? Just a bard?!
My brother in Tiamat, Bards are the most OP base class in the game!
“You’re doing great, guys… we got this…” (Hope that was inspiring, here’s your +1 Damage / +1 To Hit, please come back in 6 seconds for my repeat performance.)
I just realized how funny the concept is that we gloss over that bards basically spend the 30 seconds a fight lasts just complementing people one after the other. It feels right when combat is spaced out over a few hours, but when you condense it back down to 30 seconds it just gets goofy again.
Dude holy shit rofl