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Originally Posted by restlessgriffin
Gaming Ballistics Delvers to Grow adds Expanded Bardic Talent [10 Points] p. 33, which allows you to pick on extra spell college from a limited list such as Animal, Illusions, and Healing. Good stuff.
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The Animal college is the druid's best shtick; I won't say there's no reason to play a druid if bards can cast Beast Link/Beast Seeker/Vermin Control/Beast Possession/Create Animal/etc., but druid would go from an extremely attractive class with a distinct niche to "mostly worse than bard". Druids would be better than bards at specialized tricks like dropping wooly mammoths out of the blue sky (Beast Possession into a flying shape like hummingbird, plus Create Animal-20 to cast without gestures or words, whereas bards must always sing to cast). But Bards don't take penalties for casting spells in most dungeons, unlike druids, and Bards have access to Song of Humiliation and to additional colleges which are overall better than the non-Animal druid colleges.
There's definitely an argument to be made that if you give bards a way to cast Animal spells, you should retire the druid profession and just direct players to play bards with druidic traits like Sense of Duty (Nature).