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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8577896" data-attributes="member: 6877472"><p>Yeah, I'm liking the idea of a "Muse Pact Warlock" as a future Bard replacement. Obviously, we're stuck with the Bard as it exists for the foreseeable future, and that's not a bad thing- WotC wanted to get away from forcing people to play Clerics, but magical healing is still a requirement, and we still only have a few other classes that can provide that (sadly, the Cleric is still necessary, but the Bard is a good class to ease up that burden- Druids can heal as well, but let's face it, most Druids have other things to do).</p><p></p><p>The more I consider your arguments, Acererak, the more I'm convinced that maybe it's not the Bard that's the real problem- but the Sorcerer. If we feel the Bard's niche is not well defined, then the Sorcerer's is even worse. Ok, great, they get their power from a bloodline (though what makes "wild magic" a bloodline thing when past editions had wizards studying it is anyone's guess). And that basically means they have no unified identity, as each subclass has a different focus entirely. The fact that they even have a shared, stripped down wizard spell list and a narrow list of spells they can draw on is to the detriment of the sorcerer's identity as a class. </p><p></p><p>It seems likely that sorcerers should have existed before wizards, but the idea that sorcerers are basically cavemen painting on walls while wizards are tooling around in flying cars, and the only thing that makes them unique is that their great great grandpappy dated a demoness is kind of laughable.</p><p></p><p>OT, I know, and I apologize, but a thought I felt might be worth sharing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 8577896, member: 6877472"] Yeah, I'm liking the idea of a "Muse Pact Warlock" as a future Bard replacement. Obviously, we're stuck with the Bard as it exists for the foreseeable future, and that's not a bad thing- WotC wanted to get away from forcing people to play Clerics, but magical healing is still a requirement, and we still only have a few other classes that can provide that (sadly, the Cleric is still necessary, but the Bard is a good class to ease up that burden- Druids can heal as well, but let's face it, most Druids have other things to do). The more I consider your arguments, Acererak, the more I'm convinced that maybe it's not the Bard that's the real problem- but the Sorcerer. If we feel the Bard's niche is not well defined, then the Sorcerer's is even worse. Ok, great, they get their power from a bloodline (though what makes "wild magic" a bloodline thing when past editions had wizards studying it is anyone's guess). And that basically means they have no unified identity, as each subclass has a different focus entirely. The fact that they even have a shared, stripped down wizard spell list and a narrow list of spells they can draw on is to the detriment of the sorcerer's identity as a class. It seems likely that sorcerers should have existed before wizards, but the idea that sorcerers are basically cavemen painting on walls while wizards are tooling around in flying cars, and the only thing that makes them unique is that their great great grandpappy dated a demoness is kind of laughable. OT, I know, and I apologize, but a thought I felt might be worth sharing. [/QUOTE]
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