Blighted Bard (Apath)

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	Contents 1 Class Information; 2 Class Abilities 2.1 Weapon Proficiency; 2.2 Bard's Blight; ; 3 Summary of Changed Class Abilities 3.1 Bard; 3.2 Skald; ;
	Contents 1 Class Information; 2 Class Abilities 2.1 Weapon Proficiency; 2.2 Bard's Blight; ; 3 Summary of Changed Class Abilities 3.1 Bard; 3.2 Skald; ;

Sometimes the cost of being talented is higher than usual. The blighted bard operates under a curse or disability, and as a result is often forced to live as a beggar or vagrant.

Class Information

This is a bard and skald archetype operating under an oracle's curse.

Publisher: Trailseeker magazine.

Hit Die: d8.

Class Abilities

This archetype affects the following class abilities.

Weapon Proficiency

A blighted bard is proficient with all simple weapons and the ankus, boarding gaff, grappling hook greatclub, kukri, ogre hook, planson, and sap.

Bard's Blight

A blighted bard suffers under an oracle's curse. See also Apath oracle's curses. All references to the oracle class, spell list, or levels instead apply to the blighted bard equivalent. This replaces all the abilities of the jack of all trades class feature for the bard and the improved uncanny dodge and song of the fallen abilities of the skald.

Summary of Changed Class Abilities

These abilities of the original class are lost or modified in this archetype:

Bard

Weapon and Armor Proficiency
Jack of All Trades

Skald

Song of the Fallen
Weapon and Armor Proficiency

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