Bards – Official Help

Ah, the kind of help from TSR that players and DMs alike can benefit from (as opposed to yet another book full of feats and prestige classes). TSR has started posting a series on helping you put bards to good use:

Being second best at everything makes you first best at nothing. In a party with a skull-cracking fighter, a fireball-throwing wizard, and the greatest pickpocketing rogue in three counties, finding your place in the party can be a little intimidating. Don’t let this distress you. There’s quite a few ways a bard can make his or her unique abilities felt.