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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Twig" data-source="post: 7094901" data-attributes="member: 31754">I can imagine sitting in an audience and being inspired by a particularly good epic. Heck, I have come out of speeches thinking, "Yes! I'm going to do this!" Then I get started and about 15 minutes later I am thinking "Well, maybe I'll do this later." By the next day I'll realize that it was foolish to think that this time would be different and I go back to playing video games.While actually in combat? No. No amount of encouragement is going to convince me that we all wouldn't be better off just having the guy pick up a sword and start fighting next to us. But of course D&D changes this. The Bard's encouragement is magical (or at least magical in the way that a dragon can fly despite physics) and has a measurable impact on the effectiveness of others. Heck! The Bard can actually do physical harm to someone with an insult (Cutting Words).So for me, magic changes the Bard from a singing fool, to a valuable support character.</blockquote>