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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8391534" data-attributes="member: 6704184">IME, few think Merlin, but by far most think Celtic/Norse/fictional characters inspired by same when actually making a bard, and only associate the “cthulu-seducer” with memes. Just wanna add that 4e made the bard kick ass and was one of the best Leader classes, with tons of powers that combined buff or debuff (single target and group) with forced (enemy) or allowed (ally) movement, group tactic boosting, and easy access to swashbuckling sword bard, full musical instrument magic song bard, intelligent lore master tactical bard, and oddball combinations of the above, as well as having unique rituals to really drive home the themes. This is a much overblown aspect of historical alchemy. The vast majority of real world alchemy was just pre-modern laboratory science, and/or esoteric mysticism. Alchemists invented optics, toxicology, and many of the basic tools and methodologies of chemistry that are still used today. Alchemists developed the scientific method in Asia (East and South) 1-2 millennia ago.   A magical chemist with some knowledge of various other sciences is closer to historical alchemists than nearly any other fictional alchemist out there. It basically takes RL alchemy, whether Chinese, Indian, Hermetic (Greek, Arabian, European), or otherwise, and says “if magic had been real and worked how it does in D&D, here is an adventuring version of Paracelsus.”</blockquote>

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