Blighted Bard (Apath)

Unofficial rules compendium

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

Class Information

This is a bard archetype operating under an oracle curse.

Class: Bard.

Hit Die: d8.

Class Abilities

This archetype affects the following class abilities.

Weapon and Armor 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.

Certain curses work differently for a blighted bard than they do for an oracle, as noted here.

Summary of Changed Class Abilities

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

• Weapon and Armor Proficiency
• Jack of All Trades

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