I also think having both two Druids in the part is overdoing it. Since Jaheria is the leader of the Harpers, well... it kind of sounds right that she ought to be a Bard after all. I usually make her a dual-wielder of rapiers or scimitars. Her Bard abilities make her a good support Buffer. But the Bards have some good attack spells too. I found that it synergizes very well with the Wizard Bladesinger. I also found a mod that improves Bardic Inspiration so that it affects the entire party, including the character initiating it.

The guidance spell is awesome! So far as I know you can only get the benefit of one character's Guidance spell at a time. So just pick any one. It does not matter. Some other forms of buffs do stack though. For example, Bardic Inspiration and Guidance both stack their bonuses. The Friends spell is another good one, but I do not believe it will stack with the Guidance buff. The same with Charm Person. Both the latter two have a lot of uses in conversations.

*edit- nevermind, I didn’t read the comment closely enough

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Feb 28 2026, 12:54 PM

I've been super into BG3 again after I decided to restart my Bard. The first run I dabbled off and on with made it almost as far as Moonrise, but I had missed a bunch of Act One stuff (like, 90% of the Underdark) and it was my way to get a handle on game mechanics. Now that I know what I'm doing, my party steamrolled Act One (even left Minthara unconscious for future considerations [last time I pushed her into the chasm]).

Having a blast with everything (literally, since Gale now has Fireball), and doing my best not to miss anything this time. Logged off last night right before meeting the Inquisitor in the creche.

I also respecced Shadowheart to a Light Cleric and she is much more efficient that way. Helps buff the team while my Bard debuffs the enemies.

I want to see some pics of everybody’s characters!

I'll try to grab some screenies tonight!

Great shots, SubRosa. Especially that first one of Blood Raven - it captures who she is so perfectly!

Very nice looking characters! The shadow-cursed land. . . not so much.

Awesome pics! I need to start a new game…

I love the Shadow-cursed lands. It’s my favorite part of the game so far (I haven’t finished it ). It’s just so weird!

After several aborted tries with different class mods, I created a new class for Blood Raven which I am calling Fighter/Mage for now. It is inspired by the old Fighter/Magic-User from D&D 1.0, and Fighter/Mage from D&D 2.0 (and for that matter Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 respectively).

It is a single class that is a full spellcaster with access to wizard spells, plus a few others such as smite spells and other buffs. No spell prep, they cast any spell they know like a sorcerer. OTOH, they do not have access to wizard subclass abilities.

They are also fighters, gaining most of the fighter abilities like action surge, second wind, and so on, but no battle maneuvers.

I created two new smites for them which can be upcast to spell level 6, adding a die of damage for each level upcast. I also created a new improved version of Mage Armor for them, with a 1 point improvement to armor class.

They also get an insane amount of attribute points at character creation, and bonuses to all the skills. Because I am not even considering being balanced with this class. Blood Raven is a superhero, it is made for her.

So far it is working pretty well. Better than I had imagined really. Modding is complicated in this game.

Raven on the beach

She is the woman of someone's dreams

She is dauntless

Blood Raven is not one to pass up on a good book of ancient arcane lore

Dealing with Druids

Speaking with the dead

I generally lean towards “gish” characters myself, though I find multiclassing a caster class with a suitable martial class to be good enough for me, lol.


… I need to start a new game. D:

Blood Raven looks great! And dauntless? Yup, not a single daunt on her!

I did the thing and restarted before finishing Act 3. My new Oath of the Ancients Paladin:

https://i.imgur.com/DRuPuPQ.png

This post has been edited by Kane: Apr 11 2026, 02:47 PM

She looks great! I think it is hammer time!

Thanks! Not sure if she'll stick with a hammer or not. I was thinking about using the Blood of Lathander for a while.