The Complete 3.5e Bard

[MerricB]

This thread is for the listing of all 3.5e material that specifically aids the bard.

Player's Handbook
Classes: Bard (duh!)

Dungeon Master's Guide
Prestige Classes: Loremaster - spellcasting & bardic knowledge (?)

Eberron Campaign Setting
Feats - Extra Music, Haunting Melody, Music of Growth, Music of Making, Song of the Heart, Soothe the Beast

Miniatures Handbook
Spells - Swift Expeditious Retreat, Incite, Inhibit, Curse of Impending Blades, Swift Fly, Swift Invisibility, Undeniable Gravity, Legion's Curse of Impending Blades, Legion's Undeniable Gravity.

Frostburn
Feats - Ice Harmonics, Snowflake Wardance
Prestige Class - Stormsinger

Races of Stone
Feats - Enchanting Song, Inspire Spellpower, Metamagic Song, Misleading Song
Prestige Classes - Dawncaller, Divine Prankster

Complete Warrior
Prestige Class - Warchanter

Complete Divine
Prestige Class - Evangelist]

I'm probably missing the spells of a few books; there are also books I don't possess, so any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers!

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

The Draconomicon brings us the Dragonsong feat and the Dragonsong Lyrist PrC.

 

[Ashanderai]

The Complete Book of Eldritch Might has an alternate bard with a different mechanic for musical spells called spellsongs that it uses.

 

[Thanee]

Loremaster - spellcasting & bardic knowledge (?)

Heh, I think this is just using the mechanics. Could also be called lore mastery or something, it's obviously coming from a different direction, but has the same game effect.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Psion]

Path of Magic has bard options that allow you to broaden the WAY over-specialized concept of the bard. (All you'd really have to do to upgrade the bard abilities to 3.5 is specify which sub-skills are appropriate and add a level requirement on the same order as the 3.5 bardic abilities.)

Bow & Blade has the wildsinger

 

[FireLance]

Book of Exalted Deeds
Feat - Words of Creation (double your bardic music effects!)
Prestige Class - Troubadour of Stars

 

[Chun-tzu]

Player's Guide to Faerun
Feats: Arcane Preparation, Spell Thematics
Regional Feat: Artist
Prestige Classes: Harper Agent (bards may also be interested in Arcane Devotee, Divine Seeker, Everskan Tomb Guardian)
Spells: Cumulative Forgotten Realms spell list for Bards, including spells from Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, Magic of Faerun, Races of Faerun, Underdark, Unapproachable East, and Player's Guide to Faerun

Kingdoms of Kalamar: Stealth and Style
This book is a 3.5 class guidebook for Infiltrators (wilderness rogue variant) and Basiran Dancers (dancing bard variant). These classes were introduced in Kalamar Player's Guide, and updated to 3.5 in Stealth and Style. Stealth and Style also includes feats, spells, and prestige classes for the Basiran Dancer. Some of the feats and prestige classes could be taken by Bards who have a strong focus on dancing.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Unearthed Arcana has the Variant Bards and the Prestige Bard.

 

[BSF]

The Enchiridion of Mystic Music from S.T. Cooley Publishing.

Great book.

 

[Remathilis]

Dirgesinger in Libris Mortis, there might be a feat or two in there also (I don't own it, yet).