While I appreciate that bards have been well represented in fiction and folklore, and the 5e bard is a solid class that embraces those icons, I must admit I feel the same way as Brandegoris. I DM our games and I have no problem with one of my players taking on a bard, but I have quietly disdained the class for years. For reasons above.
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While I appreciate that bards have been well represented in fiction and folklore, and the 5e bard is a solid class that embraces those icons, I must admit I feel the same way as Brandegoris. I DM our games and I have no problem with one of my players taking on a bard, but I have quietly disdained the class for years. For reasons above.
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Yet he didn't do this while his equally well known and heroic companions were in the middle of a life and death combat with said Lord of the Death and they were hacking at each other wit swords, scythes and axes.
You can make everyone look heroic in a specially crafted scene where he is the only protagonist, but how would Orpheus look like in a generic random encounter with dire wolves while he viciously mocks them?
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Name one feature that requires or even mentions singing. Bonus points if it's a combat ability. No points for spells.
Methinks the problem with the flavour of the bard id one you're adding.
TheCosmicKid
Hero
Probably much like he looks in a generic random encounter with lions and leopards:
Music, soothing the savage beast? Who ever heard of something so absurd? What kind of loser brings wild animals to heel with nothing but a firm gaze and the power of his voice? Words are for wimps! Heroes solve all their problems with violence!
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Charles Rampant
Explorer
I love just how un-Greek Orpheus looks here. Dude's paler than a sheet!
TheCosmicKid
Hero
Son of the sun god, dude. (Not that blonds are completely alien to real-life Greece, either.)
Gardens & Goblins
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''Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.'' -- hey, that sounds an aaawful lot like magic but hey, ok. Maybe. Fine.
''To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.'' -- Ok. Stop. That's magic. You nearly had me with the, 'music' malarkey. You cad!
Anyway - where's our Artist character class? Whips out an easel, knocks out some expressive juxtaposition of void-shape relationships and man's struggle with knowing the infinite. Then proceeds to dart around the encounter, holding the thing up, showing it to all. ''Beholden! I, like many great artists from history & legend, have the power to move you! Have a +2 bonus to attack and damage. Oh, and on insight into your struggle with knowing the infinite. Also, give me gold.''
Real Scotmen solve their problems with VIOLENCE AND WORDS!
Gardens & Goblins
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Twice the double posting. Twice the flavour.
Campbell
Relaxed Intensity
During the runup to 4e I got in alot of trouble on these boards for pointing out my abject pleasure that they would not be in the Player's Handbook! Also the joy that I would be getting the Warlord and the Warlock! The Bard, the Cleric, the Paladin and the Druid are some of my least favorite D&D classes. I tend to favor my fantasy more on the Swords and Sorcery end of things. By Crom!
Ask me my thoughts on Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes, Halflings, and such sometime! Especially the short folk! Then ask me how much I love Tieflings!
Of course 4e had to ruin it by making me actually like their takes on several of the things I normally do not care for! Including the Bard! Vicious Mockery indeed!
Ask me my thoughts on Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes, Halflings, and such sometime! Especially the short folk! Then ask me how much I love Tieflings!
Of course 4e had to ruin it by making me actually like their takes on several of the things I normally do not care for! Including the Bard! Vicious Mockery indeed!
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