Song and Silence: A Guidebook to Bards and Rogues

Didn't like this at all. This sourcebook is mediocre at best. Since it's for the 3rd edition, there's little reason to bother with this at all.

The prestige classes, aside from one, are very generic and hardly “prestigious”.

The items, musical instruments, and spells are ok I suppose, as additional options, but I found the spell list lazy - many of them seem suited for wizards and clerics yet they were made exclusive to assassins and bards. There are a handful of tactical options, but felt like just more complications.

About the only notable sections are the ones on trap construction, sample traps, sample thieves' guilds and sample bardic colleges.

The thing that I can't stand most is the almost frivolous approach in describing things about the bard class. It almost felt like they weren't even being serious.

The easiest place to have scored was to highlight more role-playing and non-combat opportunities for rogues and bards, yet this was barely examined.