Quote Originally Posted by Lyracian View Post

With those stats you should be able to be anything you want! You only need Dex for weapon attacks and Charisma for Bard Spells as you are not likely to be using Ranger spells that need a save. The main question is what level split are you thinking of? Will you end up as Bard 1/Ranger 11? 4/8?
See that is the thing. I don't know much about bards and while looking over their college wasn't sure if it was worthwhile to go swords or valour. Thematically I could make them work into my backstory but didn't know if by doing so I would drastically reduce my combat, scouting effectiveness.

I don't mind staying level 1 bard but we're starting at level 3 and since we're all going bards as well our DM is giving us a boon so we get to start with a feat as well.

Just struggling with fitting the bard into the ranger levels and didn't know if there were any oddball themes I could use to make a fun but effective character for the combat/ scouting parts of the campaign.