Quote Originally Posted by Tubercular Ox View Post
With malice towards none, and in the spirit of trying to figure what's going on, I think maybe the reasonable doubt standard is hurting the thread. If there are multiple options and none of them can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, stuff like this happens. It doesn't have to happen, but it does.

That being said, I think Bard 14+/Dashing Swordsman 1+ (Bard caster level 16+) is at least transparent about the dilemma and costs hardly anything spacewise.
Honestly I like this.