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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8391301" data-attributes="member: 58172">Sometimes earlier editions of D&D outright misinformed players about certain things. So some players grew up with the misinformation. But players growing up with 5e have a more accurate idea of what a bard is.The only critique that I have about the 5e concept of the Bard is, the Celtic bards used words to do magic, not musical instruments. (There were bardic families known for their music, but the magic is by words.) Norse mages never use musical instruments. The class needs to be able to be without an instrument. There should be a Bard subclass that specializes in a musical instrument, but the other subclasses no. In my games, the Bard uses the psionic power source without spell components, but still needs to speak or sing to focus ones thoughts in order to apply the profociency bonus.</blockquote>