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<blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 2132750" data-attributes="member: 30001">Yes Rystil, Ogma bless you, I certainly could not have explained all of my references in a post under a million words so I was relying on a segment of the gaming community to take up the cause.&nbsp; (And hoping most of them would laugh this off).&nbsp; Yes, you are my audience and I respect the fact that you don't agree.&nbsp;The fact, as I see it, is that gamers, while not experts on history, understand far more, in general, about swords and magic summoning circles.&nbsp; What actually constitutes bardic lore has to be gleaned from indirect sources.&nbsp; For 3E DnD to have dimissed bardic lore as some sort of miscellany gleaned from gabbing with people in taverns is incomprehensible to Gizmo the Evangelist of Bards.&nbsp;It's like I woke up in a parallel universe and read something like &quot;Clerics get no spells because the gods aren't real.&nbsp; They have the ability to raise money and make people feel guilty.&quot;&nbsp; I would think &quot;jeepers, didn't these people even try to research and create a heroic cleric?&nbsp;You say that some sources tell you Amairgen is a druid.&nbsp; I tell you that some sources will tell you that the druids built Stonehenge.&nbsp; Don't believe everything you read.&nbsp; Some of those sources you are reading were struggling to understand a world thousands of years remote whose knowledge was encoded in a form foreign to their education.&nbsp; But I can assure you that the bards knew the truth of it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gizmo33, post: 2132750, member: 30001"] Yes Rystil, Ogma bless you, I certainly could not have explained all of my references in a post under a million words so I was relying on a segment of the gaming community to take up the cause. (And hoping most of them would laugh this off). Yes, you are my audience and I respect the fact that you don't agree. The fact, as I see it, is that gamers, while not experts on history, understand far more, in general, about swords and magic summoning circles. What actually constitutes bardic lore has to be gleaned from indirect sources. For 3E DnD to have dimissed bardic lore as some sort of miscellany gleaned from gabbing with people in taverns is incomprehensible to Gizmo the Evangelist of Bards. It's like I woke up in a parallel universe and read something like "Clerics get no spells because the gods aren't real. They have the ability to raise money and make people feel guilty." I would think "jeepers, didn't these people even try to research and create a heroic cleric? You say that some sources tell you Amairgen is a druid. I tell you that some sources will tell you that the druids built Stonehenge. Don't believe everything you read. Some of those sources you are reading were struggling to understand a world thousands of years remote whose knowledge was encoded in a form foreign to their education. But I can assure you that the bards knew the truth of it. [/QUOTE]

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