D&D 3E/3.5 3.5e char classes

[brehobit]

In another thread I saw a comment that bards in 3.5 could now cast in light armor. True? Where was this announced (Dragon?)

Also, there was a discussion that Evasion was added in part because otherwise taking 2 levels of rogue just makes "too much sense" when playing a ranger. I'm wondering how many people would really give away a +1 BAB required when taking a level of rogue. I was also wondering if this might just imply that rangers aren't on the figher BAB track anymore. _that_ would certainly make up for all the cool new powers of the ranger. I think it might more than make up for it though.

Thoughts?

 

[Murrdox]

I'm not sure if ANYTHING has been "officially" announced... but I've heard about the bard's casting ability ignoring armor failure from a couple of sources.

People have argued about balancing the Ranger forever, so I don't see any point in mentioning that here. I'll just say that I think reducing his hit die to a d8 makes up for his new abilities, IMO. Reducing his BAB would mean that people would just play Clerics instead and get better casting ability.

 

[DrSpunj]

In another thread I saw a comment that bards in 3.5 could now cast in light armor. True? Where was this announced (Dragon?)

The only place I heard that was on the Mortality Radio show from T'Ed Stark. I'm pretty sure you can still download the episode if you haven't already; he said a lot of interesting stuff about many of the classes, much of which has been confirmed in his Dragon Revision updates or on the WotC website.

DrSpunj

 

[Kae'Yoss]

I'm pretty sure that rangers retain their strong BAB - he's still a warrior, no rogue.
Evasion is not to be spit at, so that one point of BAB you lose isn't that bad. But I think people don't do that so often because of the multiclass restrictions: a rogue2/ranger18 would incur the XP penalty, unless your favored class is either rogue or ranger.

 

[brehobit]

Thanks ya all.

 

[Sejs]

Unless I'm on crack, the thing I saw on bards said they could cast bard spells without ASF in both Light and Medium armor.


Which makes sense, as they're proficient in both anyhow.

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

Bah. I almost always split evenly between Rogue and Ranger anyway, since I think real Rangers have Sneak Attack. (But the class probably shouldn't get it.)

It's always worked nicely for me in the past, though with the changes to Ranger, I suspect it's going to work even better.

 

[Darklone]

Yeah, I thought to HOUSERULE the new ranger already with 1d4 sneak attack extra damage instead of his plain +2 damage,... though the +2 is lots better for crits.