Greetings all. While my UO is patching, I wanted to get some advice on a possible character template.

I've looked through the bard forum here and I noticed most of the templates involve magery and not melee skills. Is this normal? I've only played a little bit of UO over the years so a lot of it is still Greek to me. When I did play on Chessie back just after T2A came out, I mainly played straight warriors with a little magery thrown in as well for recall and what not. This time out, I'd love to dabble with a bard, but I've never played a mage and I'm afraid I wouldn't be that good at it.

So to narrow it all down, is it feasable to build bard skills while also building a melee character?

Thanks for any insight,

He-who-has-no-name-as-of-this-writing-because-it-takes-so-long-to-patch-from-Mondain's Legacy.

future citizen of Lake Austin