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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7090036" data-attributes="member: 6704184">There might be some folks doing that, but there would be far more "crying foul" because a scholar, Noble, captain, whatever isn't a bard, and they play bards for the Bard flavor, not "Because Tradition." Having every one of those in the game would be fine with me, but none of them obviate the place of the Bard in heroic fantasy story telling, so the game would still need a Bard. The Scholar shouldn't be a class who can calm an epic monster, befriend an angry dragon, etc. an individual ascholar might do those things, because characters aren't 1 dimensionally defined by their chosen class, but if you want the class for that, it's the Bard. The Captain and Bard overlap in terms of encouraging and inspiring allies in a fight, but the captain isn't a master of lore, or storytelling, or song. So unless you want a system where all classes with any overlap are folded into a single class until there are only 3-4 classes, the Bard has a strong place. And even then, you're gonna have to make sure the Specialist can strongly model the Bard.</blockquote>