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<blockquote data-quote="WarpedAcorn" data-source="post: 7191939" data-attributes="member: 6819400">I think the problem stems from how Bards draw their magic from music, so our collective image of a bard is a man in colorful tights prancing around with a Lute. No matter how you slice it, Bardic ability is tied to music and the music of Fantasy lands doesn't inspire bad-assness. Even if you picture someone with a drum, they are still beating on that thing while trying to look menacing. About the only way I see Bards being &quot;cool&quot; is giving them Electric Guitars. Metal-Bards are kinda badass... (Example: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKgCkP2cnkU" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKgCkP2cnkU</a> )Personally, I *really* just like the notion of reskinning the Bard as &quot;The Adventurer&quot;. Replace their musical magic with standard Wizard Focus or Components, replace their Tools options with 1 Musical Instrument and others like Thieves, Herbalist, etc. And treat them like the wonderful mish-mash class they were meant to be, a class that has picked up a few skills from every other class and cobbled them together well enough to survive in a big scary world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WarpedAcorn, post: 7191939, member: 6819400"] I think the problem stems from how Bards draw their magic from music, so our collective image of a bard is a man in colorful tights prancing around with a Lute. No matter how you slice it, Bardic ability is tied to music and the music of Fantasy lands doesn't inspire bad-assness. Even if you picture someone with a drum, they are still beating on that thing while trying to look menacing. About the only way I see Bards being "cool" is giving them Electric Guitars. Metal-Bards are kinda badass... (Example: [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKgCkP2cnkU[/url] ) Personally, I *really* just like the notion of reskinning the Bard as "The Adventurer". Replace their musical magic with standard Wizard Focus or Components, replace their Tools options with 1 Musical Instrument and others like Thieves, Herbalist, etc. And treat them like the wonderful mish-mash class they were meant to be, a class that has picked up a few skills from every other class and cobbled them together well enough to survive in a big scary world. [/QUOTE]

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