And how pray tell is a fighter or barbarian mostly character going to master the required knowledge requiremants and sorcerors funny can't use armor and cast spells?<br/><br/>And to be blunt a bard is NO slouch in combat they have decent armor light armor can include Mithral Medium Armors or Adamentin Light Armor, Shields (with training) and some decent weapons. And the Dragon Disciple gets a d12 hit die.<br/><br/>And again efficiciency is not everything can you picuture a gorgeous female Dragon Disciple with shiny scales gold or silver, fangs and claws, in a adamentin chain and carrying a shield, hacking away at opponents or performing for fun in no clothing of note. That's hot! Anyway the fighter or barbarian don't really add much no extra attacks, not much extra attack power and hit points are negligible disavantage once DD is met.<br/><br/>You miss the whole idea she is a performing bard that can fight not a mystical bard most of her spells are going to be for performing use, healing or protective like Protection from Evil with maybe a Suggestion spell or something. But with an SC od 22, Hit Points of 96 (rolled well on the d12 and have a good COn boost) and access to a long sword for a weapon likely magical I don't see the big problem in a fight. Bards are always BACK UP fighters anyway not tanks so nothing has changed even if she was just a bard I would fight assisting the others that are better at it. And I have the dragon senses so sneaking up and flanking her is going to be trickier. I did min/max in her concept. Not for overall combat efficiency but can hold her own.<br/><br/>