Something you may be unaware of (since they were removed in 2001) is that some classes have experience penalties. Bards, Rangers, Shadow Knights, and Paladins have a 40% experience penalty. Monks have a 20% penalty. INT casters have a 10% penalty. In addition, some races--particularly Ogres (15%), Trolls and Iksars (20%) have additional penalties that multiply with the class penalties. A Troll Shadow Knight has a whopping 68% experience penalty, and requires probably twice the total experience to make level 60 that a Halfling Warrior does. You may wish to consider this when starting out.
Project 1999 has its own Wiki which is immensely helpful. You could easily find it via forum links or web search.
As noted above, Swarm Kiting allows a solo Bard to level at a very rapid rate that no other class can match, at the cost of being rather boring to do.
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