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Title: Song and Silence: A Guidebook to Bards and Rogues (Dungeons & Dragons Accessory) by John Rateliff, David Noonan ISBN: 0-7869-1857-8 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.27 (30 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Not bad, but seemed lacking...
Comment: The supplimental class books released by WoTC this year have helped as reference material with characters I've played. I started a rogue in a recent campaign with anticipation of finding some nifty new prestige class class to gear toward, or some inspiration for a yet-unplayed bard.

I do feel, as another reviewer mentioned, that it traps the characters within a human or half-elven standard, and I think that's being extremely limited. I've found the feats quite nifty in this book, and the trap-making extremely informational, but I really wasn't that impressed with the prestige classes as a whole. They just kinda seemed there, and having watched someone play a Shadowdancer, they pale in comparison, IMHO. Of course, this might change if I see someone pull it off.

Reading the book, I felt that just about everything, except for the trap making, seemed much more geared toward bards than rogues, and perhaps that's what's disappointing me. Lots of great stuff for bards in here. Particularly feats against undead, and the subsonic music. Quite cool.

Regardless, I think that for the feats and ideas with trap making, the book is worth a read. And perhaps someone will find some sweet... way to get a rogue through this book.

--Mel.

Rating: 5
Summary: Sneak Attack
Comment: The Core-Class Guidebooks are more than half finished (with only the Rangers, Druids and Barbarians left) and it looks as if WOTC has finally figured out what the readers want.

This 96 page handbook is less of a Guidebook and more of an appendix to the Dungeon Masters Guide... but that's a GOOD thing.
Song and Silence cuts through the effluvia and gets down to business on page one.

First presented are the Prestige classes (including the much missed Thief-Acrobat) and moves straight to the Feats and Skills. As you can see below, the book is laid out in a economical and no-nonsense manner.

Chapter 1 - Prestige Classes
-Dread Pirate
-Dungeon Delver
-Fang of Lloth
-Outlaw of the Crimson Road
-Royal Explorer
-Spymaster
-Temple Raider of Olidammara
-Thief-acrobat
-Vigilante
-Virtuoso
Chapter 2 - Skills and Feats
-Primer on Poison
-Do-it-yourself Traps
-New ways to use skills
-Feats
Chapter 3 - Bard and Rogue Equipment
-Bards and their instruments
-Undead Bards
-New Weapons
-Thief Gear
-Magic Items
Chapter 4 - Organizations for Bards and Rogues
-Ten Thieves Guilds
-Bardic Colleges
Chapter 5 - You and the world around you
-The Rogue
-The Bard
Role in the Campaign
-Role in the Game
-Motivations
-Relationship with Others
-Special Combat Options
Chapter 6 - Spells
-New Assassin Spells
-New Bard Spells
-New Spells

Finally, Song and Silence is of equal value to players and DM's alike, the artwork is first rate and the prose is entertaining as well as enlightening.

Another win for WOTC.

Rating: 4
Summary: Best of the WoTC Expansion Book
Comment: I own all of the WoTC expansion books and this one is the all around best. The other books are geared towards DM's, in that they create prestige classes which would make colorful NPC's. Song and Silence has a healthy selection of prestige classes that players would actually like to become. Futhermore, the feats are very well defined and thought out, and in some circumstances, improved (S&S redefines, for the better, some of the expansion feats in Sword and Fist).

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