| almost by accident i "discovered" an intriguing multi-class.
bard / cleric. (it breaks the first comandment of multi-class, thou shall not multi 2 spellcaster classes) and saddly it only really works for humans, half elves and female drow.
granted you need an odd build to make this char work, high wis & cha, dex is more important than strength. con will have to be pretty low for the other stats to work, so you can either use "draw on holy might" to raise physical stats or use more missle weapons (take advantage of high dex) i don't recall if bards get the bow feat for free or if that was part of the drow package, either way the bow makes a very good weapon for this char.
in the early game focus on cleric levels w/ only one level of bard. that will be enough to give you access to bard equipment, and the first song.
once your cleric levels begin to top off, (ie you have access to all spell levels w/ a decent amount of castings / day) then you can refocus on your bard levels the ideal finishing point is bard 11 cleric 19 (granted you'll need some fuzzy math or a hof run to make this happen)
currently i'm running a drow cleric of tempus / bard, and she's the perfect healer / summoner. she's also been the party talker.
her bard spells will never be that good on the attack, but i'm looking more for defensive type spells, which should really help her combat survival. ex mirror image, which should help her in the event that she *needs* to cast a mass heal. she'll be able to help the party w/ the various songs (hopefully by end of game she'll have all the songs)
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