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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 7093262" data-attributes="member: 5142">Valor Bards exist. Nothing requires that bards use their instruments for their Bardic Inspiration, Song of Rest, or in their spells. Also music =! instruments, as bards (and most people for that matter) can sing, perform (poetry), or simply inspire without the use of instruments. For starters, I recommend reading the equipment section of the PHB. There's a lovely section on instruments there. There's also a section on different types of instruments in SCAG. It's not about downplaying music and the bard. Music is part of the bard's identity. It's just that the bard is also more than music, and bard's being trained musicians does not inherently make them silly troubadours. Music is important to the bard but music is not exclusive to the bard any more than chivalry is to the paladin. Not all lutes are carried by bards nor do all bards carry lutes. The problem entails your choice to narrowly restrict your conception of the bard so you can maintain its "silly" image for the sake of your prejudices. I don't think we'd be having this conversation if people could properly stop identifying shallow player character-creation stereotypes as systemic, mechanical class flaws.</blockquote>