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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 2101783" data-attributes="member: 2067">Allow it?! I'd design the PrC for him myself! Give him a literal "sharp tongue!" Seriously, the idea of a bard that insults his enemies into oblivion is an excellent plan, and a great archetype to boot. Most of the bard abilities look pretty fine as-is: breaking spells raising morale and distracting people by telling jokes is a pretty good use for them. I can imagine his Bardic Lore rolls right now...Player: "Okay, I want to Bardic Lore on the patriarch's daughter, see what I already know about her."DM: "Sure."*player rolls, gets a good result*DM: "You....uhm...remember a joke riffing off of her always wearing her mother's enchanted amulet around."Player: "Okay, I say: 'Hey, has anyone heard the one about the patriarch's daughter and the pearl necklace?'"The innuendos may just be out of control!Of course, me being the DM that I am, I'd work with him on his past...have him come from an abusive home, where comedy was his defense against the world. His father was an alcoholic who beats his wife. As a kid, the bard was bullied on the playground for having an alcholic loser of a father, and being the kid of a whore like all their parents said. He made friends by twisting it into jokes: "Yeah, Timmy, me ma'am's a lady of the night, but word is yer paw is, too." I mean, the world's best comedians rarely come from happy little families, y'know?This would give some pathos to the character, and let me work in some story about his history. Timmy grew up to be a dock worker whose now taking bribes from sahagin to drop off some cargo with them, skim a little off the top. It all goes fine until Timmy's wife gets pregnant, and since he's gonna be a family man, he wants to stop giving the sahagin something off the top. The sahagin don't take kindly to it. Lo, his wife goes into labor on the very night the sahagin decide to take this little grudge to the surface and get rid of the human who thinks he can stop giving them what they want...Timmy's been a jerk to the PC's before when they've gone to the dock, but now he shows up bloody and begging on the doorstep with his pregnant wife in his hands, tooth marks on his face, begging Bard-boy for help, since he's a big strong adventurer now...Of course, don't let him hog the spotlight too much, and maybe I'm going overboard in a flurry of inspiration, but adding a little dark history to the reason he's such a golden-tongued master of fart jokes might go a long way to making the other characters tolerate him.</blockquote>

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