bardic knack

[geekintheground]

by RAW is there any way to get a bonus to bardic knack OTHER than more bard levels?

a seperate, but related question: would allowing bonuses to bardic knowledge to count toward bardic knack be overpowered? (so a bard 10 with 5 ranks in Knowledge (History) would be counted as a 12 level bard, meaning the bardic knack bonus would be +6)

[Sith_Happens]

by RAW is there any way to get a bonus to bardic knack OTHER than more bard levels?

No, though it's a reasonable houserule to make prestige classes that advance bardic knowledge also advance bardic knack if you have it instead.


a seperate, but related question: would allowing bonuses to bardic knowledge to count toward bardic knack be overpowered? (so a bard 10 with 5 ranks in Knowledge (History) would be counted as a 12 level bard, meaning the bardic knack bonus would be +6)

In theory possibly, in practice hard to say. You can get a lot of bonuses to bardic knowledge if you know where to look, and I'm pretty sure most of them are untyped.

[Troacctid]

It is possible with Uncanny Trickster and Legacy Champion, but since those are usually just worse than taking more levels of Bard, I don't recommend them.

Bloodline levels will also advance it. They may be somewhat more viable, depending on how your DM chooses to resolve their various rules dysfunctions.

[geekintheground]

thanks guys, was planning on using the paragonastic apostle boost trick, but aparently 15 ranks (due to dips) is too much at level 20. oh well, 8 ranks isnt bad.