D&D 5E Attunement

[Paraxis]

Attunement like rarity itself seems to be mostly just odd, when making your own items I would just go with your gut.

As to wands, I think if wands of cure wounds existed they would be uncommon and not require attunement, based on other 1st level wands. I do see peoples criticism as to how they shouldn't exist in wand form because bards might be arcane based they do not use wands as arcane focuses.

About bards.
In the worlds of D&D, words and music are not just vibrations of air, but vocalizations with power all their own. The bard is a master of song, speech, and the magic they contain. Bards say that the multiverse was spoken into existence, that the words of the gods gave it shape, and that echoes of these primordial Words of Creation still resounds throughout the cosmos. The music of bards is an attempt to snatch and harness those echoes, subtly woven into their spells and powers. from the PHB

So bards use basically true name magic, the language of the gods to fuel their magic. It is magic in it's purest form more magical or divine than wizards or clerics.

 

[Remathilis]

YMMV, but four out of five bards could heal (1e bards cast druidic spells, CLW was a druid spell); 2e's bard is the outlier now.

 

[ko6ux]

I wouldn't give bards any divine magic. I recommend you call their divine spells divine spells and magic, if you use them, though. That is, a bard has both arcane and divine spells by the book. That's how I interpret it anyway, but once again, bards wouldn't have those spells in my campaigns so I wouldn't encounter this problem.

What about the choir directors of the world? Hymns don't have any power?

 

[EzekielRaiden]

What about the choir directors of the world? Hymns don't have any power?

SirAntoine has very particular, very rigid ideas about what is and isn't correct in D&D things. Healing is divine magic in his eyes. It doesn't matter what the books say--unless, of course, they happen to support his position, in which case it's very important what they say.

 

[fuindordm]

Cleric spells are prepackaged gifts from gods or their servants, a reward for service and faith. Clerics don't need to know how they work.
Are my AD&D roots showing?

 

[SirAntoine]

Attunement like rarity itself seems to be mostly just odd, when making your own items I would just go with your gut.

As to wands, I think if wands of cure wounds existed they would be uncommon and not require attunement, based on other 1st level wands. I do see peoples criticism as to how they shouldn't exist in wand form because bards might be arcane based they do not use wands as arcane focuses.

About bards.
In the worlds of D&D, words and music are not just vibrations of air, but vocalizations with power all their own. The bard is a master of song, speech, and the magic they contain. Bards say that the multiverse was spoken into existence, that the words of the gods gave it shape, and that echoes of these primordial Words of Creation still resounds throughout the cosmos. The music of bards is an attempt to snatch and harness those echoes, subtly woven into their spells and powers. from the PHB

So bards use basically true name magic, the language of the gods to fuel their magic. It is magic in it's purest form more magical or divine than wizards or clerics.

I wouldn't use that at all. It has the wrong flavor, and it hurts the flavor of arcane and divine magic.

 

[SirAntoine]

What about the choir directors of the world? Hymns don't have any power?

I would be more inclined to give the choir boys of the world some magic, or power, but I don't identify any of these people with being bards. The bard is not a musician, and songs and music or even just speech do not produce magic. The same words can be spoken by someone who hears them, but only for a caster with those spells does the spell take effect. The bard is also not a musician in that he or she is an adventurer. It is from this life of adventure that a bard learns their spells, not from getting better and better at performing with the organ or song.

 

[neobolts]

Attunement like rarity itself seems to be mostly just odd, when making your own items I would just go with your gut.

Both attunements and rarity feel like meta game guideposts for DMs more than they feel like the in game lore for the pseudoscience of magic items.

About bards.
In the worlds of D&D, words and music are not just vibrations of air, but vocalizations with power all their own. The bard is a master of song, speech, and the magic they contain. Bards say that the multiverse was spoken into existence, that the words of the gods gave it shape, and that echoes of these primordial Words of Creation still resounds throughout the cosmos. The music of bards is an attempt to snatch and harness those echoes, subtly woven into their spells and powers. from the PHB

So bards use basically true name magic, the language of the gods to fuel their magic. It is magic in it's purest form more magical or divine than wizards or clerics.

I'm not sure how I feel about the "music of creation" lore. Bards always seemed more like mavericks who are dabbling in all aspects of magic and cobbling things together. I think I owe this to the 2nd edition of the rules which refer to bards as "dabblers" and a "jack of all trades" and state they even acquire wizard spells by "serendipity and happenstance".

 

[SkidAce]

I would be more inclined to give the choir boys of the world some magic, or power, but I don't identify any of these people with being bards. The bard is not a musician, and songs and music or even just speech do not produce magic. The same words can be spoken by someone who hears them, but only for a caster with those spells does the spell take effect. The bard is also not a musician in that he or she is an adventurer. It is from this life of adventure that a bard learns their spells, not from getting better and better at performing with the organ or song.

Honest question..is english your natural language?

You are saying things like "The bard is not a musician", which is a overly broad statement, when I think you mean to say "I don't see the bard as a musician" etc.

Which is 100% percent okay/fine for anything you or your group wants to do.

But my bards are musicians.

 

[SirAntoine]

Honest question..is english your natural language?

You are saying things like "The bard is not a musician", which is a overly broad statement, when I think you mean to say "I don't see the bard as a musician" etc.

Which is 100% percent okay/fine for anything you or your group wants to do.

But my bards are musicians.

My English is fine. It's American, but fine.

I suggest you follow my example, but I was talking about the musicians who are not bards or adventurers of any other class. You don't have to permit musicians in your setting, but they wouldn't be all bards as D&D uses the language.