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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CyberSpyder" data-source="post: 2134042" data-attributes="member: 12199">Probably so.  Oddly enough, an insult is remarkably easy to view as an insult, no matter what actual words are used - when you use 'modern' to mean 'ignorant,' it shows.My first reaction, in any case, would be something like that the World's Largest Dungeon is hardly a place to look to for good GMing tips and worldbuilding suggestions.  While I'm sure it's a fine product, dungeons at their best are faintly ludicrous, and something made to be the Largest of them is only going to be moreso.Personally, I feel that oral history is given a quasi-mystical significance here in the 'modern day' that overvalues it - the spread of literacy and of the printed word happened for a reason, after all.  But in a fantasy campaign, that's of little consequence - many unlikely or impossible things, magic being the most obvious, have a great deal of utility in the game.A major problem with the bard-as-ultimate-sage, though, is that many GMs, as others have intimated, find it important to restrict the flow of information.  A large part of many adventures is the thrill of discovery, and the thrill of already knowing can be a poor substitute.  In many ways, D&D is already too free with information - the ability to discern the moral and ethical leanings of an individual with a first-level spell is a notorious example of that.In any case, many people in your situation, dissatisfied with the way the rules treat a particular archetype, have come up with their own rules to cover it more faithfully, or simply better.  It might be a good project for you, as you've clearly done a great deal of study into the subject already.  If what you produce serves the game sufficiently well, it's hardly inconceivable that it might spread.</blockquote>

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