This player character build (bard 10/ red dragon disciple 10/ pale master 20) is designed to be highly defensive, gaining bonuses to armor class, as well as several immunities, from the two prestige classes. This allows an option to fight without armor and shield (and the associated arcane spell failure), depending on the situation. For offense, this build primarily relies on devastating criticals, which are threatened on 45% of attacks (assuming a keen weapon) and whose saving throw DC is 43. There is also the option to toss a hellball, particularly against those immune to critical hits.