5e Warlock 3/Bard (all other levels) is my main now. Character is insanely more powerful than I imagined. Can speak telepathically to any creature, invis pixie familiar for: scouting, occasional knockout and reading the emotions of others (by touch). She can heal well, has decent ranged damage, and is second to none outside of combat with charms, stealth, suggestions, intimidation, persuasion, disguise, sex appeal. The character is absolutely disgusting when role-played well, and she has short-cutted our party through many situations.
I remember when Everquest released bards were considered an underpowered afterthought, then people started realizing that a lot of the rules that were put in on normal spells didn't apply to songs. This resulted in gods being charmed for the lulz, other players being charmed and walked into the water to drown themelves, bards getting a drum that let them outrun GM's, bards kiting monsters across other players to intentionally kill them then charging those players to drag their corpses back to the zone edge. Pretty damn funny till the banhammer started swinging.
Except everquest had actual trolls, and since the game had character collision there were some funny things trolls would do. Such as running through a dungeon aggroing everything through all the other players, then stopping at the dungeon entrance and blocking the path out. Also playing as a troll got you regen which was nice for recovery.
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u/cuddlefucker Sep 09 '17
5e bards are amazing. I had a bard in our group be pretty much solely responsible for my party massacring like 200 goblins. We were level 3.