I'm currently playing two MOTB games. One is cleric23 and the other one is bard12RDD5. Bard is Aasimar. How hard is to play with neutral character and/or bard?
Should I multiclass my bard character? Which class should I add?
I'm currently playing two MOTB games. One is cleric23 and the other one is bard12RDD5. Bard is Aasimar. How hard is to play with neutral character and/or bard?
Should I multiclass my bard character? Which class should I add?
There are 'good' and 'evil' ways to fill up your spirit bar from non-spirits (feeding off undead and living people respectively), both of which will result in alignment shifts every time you use them. The only way to remain neutral would be to *not* use any of the special spirit feeding abilities, which means making do with plain old spirits and elementals. You'd probably end up being a 'suppression junky'.
If you want to play as a 'real' bard then you're better off not multiclassing too much (ideally not at all). Otherwise you get a watered-down bard who isn't living up to their full potential. That said, I usually use a few bardic levels as a way to qualify for RDD, then take a heap of Eldritch Knight levels to improve their base attack bonus. Such characters barely qualify as bards though.
I fine with suppress! I rememebr this morning that my favored class is paladin, so no multiclassing with base classes! As I recall, prestige classes do not count, right?
Prestige classes will certainly avoid experience penalties due to multiclassing, but they'll still water down a bard's class abilities.
Song/Hymn of Requiem, the best bard ability (and one of the best in the entire game) requires 21 bard levels, so keep that in mind.
I recommend against EK on bards. It may eventually give you an extra attack per round, but at a low AB, and worse inspirations mean you won't gain much (if any) AB over a normal bard.
Yes - I usually only resort to EK if my 'bard' is just being used as an RDD springboard.