Archetypes

A healing-focused bard who tends wounded minds and bodies with performance and the Heal skill.

ReplacesBardic Knowledge, Jack-of-All-Trades, Lore Master +2

Words can harm, but they also heal.

ReplacesVersatile performance, Frightening tune, Deadly performance

They say that words can cut deeper than any blade, and the sound striker proves this true.

ReplacesInspire competence, Suggestion

A bard whose performance resonates through stone itself, felt rather than heard by allies underground.

ReplacesCountersong, Dirge Of Doom

Whether acrobat, troubadour, or thespian, the street performer mixes with the masses, singing for his supper.

ReplacesInspire courage, Inspire competence, Inspire greatness +4

A scholarly bard who draws on scrolls and spellbooks beyond his own list to cast borrowed magic.

ReplacesDeadly Performance, Dirge Of Doom, Distraction +3

A bard who channels storms, unleashing thunderclaps and calling down lightning through performance.

ReplacesBardic Knowledge, Inspire Competence, Suggestion +3

A bard who trades typical bardic knowledge for druidic and ranger magic and primal animal aspects.

ReplacesBardic Knowledge, Countersong, Jack-of-All-Trades +2

A quick-tongued bard built for verbal duels, wounding with cutting remarks as readily as with words.

ReplacesBardic Knowledge, Countersong, Inspire Competence +5

A versatile soldier who inspires her companions with her fighting prowess, an exemplar is at home on the front lines of battles anywhere.

ReplacesAC Bonus, Brawler's Strike, Close Weapon Mastery +2

A feral striker taps into a reservoir of druidic power hidden inside herself, allowing her to take animalistic characteristics.

ReplacesMartial Flexibility

Hinyasi teach martial traditions centered on the use of farming tools and on other improvised weapons.

ReplacesClose Weapon Mastery, Knockout

When a living avalanche is on the move, no one can stand in her way.

ReplacesAC Bonus, Awesome Blow, Improved Awesome Blow +1

With her lightning quickness and guile, a snakebite striker keeps her foes' attention focused on her, because any one of her feints might be an actual attack.

ReplacesMartial Flexibility, Maneuver Training

A strangler is trained to choke the life out of her victims with her vise-like grip.

ReplacesAC Bonus, Awesome Blow, Brawler's Flurry +3

A strong-side boxer employs a unique fighting style that incorporates a rope or cord wound around her hand.

ReplacesAC Bonus, Close Weapon Mastery, Maneuver Training

By accepting spirits of nature into her soul, a verdant grappler can entangle her foes with tangled undergrowth.

ReplacesClose Weapon Mastery, Maneuver Training

Winding path renegades epitomize those who have chosen the twisted path.

ReplacesAC Bonus

The cavalier is defined not only by his dedication to his order or his skill on the battlefield, but also by the special relationship he maintains with his mount.

ReplacesMount, Expert Trainer

No warrior better epitomizes the centaur's devastating martial power than the charger.

ReplacesWeapon and Armor Proficiency, Mount, Cavalier's Charge +2