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<blockquote data-quote="Johnny Angel" data-source="post: 6367194" data-attributes="member: 13334">Once upon a time, in the real world, there arose a new class of poets known as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliard" target="_blank">Goliards</a>, which blossomed in the 12th and 13th centuries in Europe. They were trained as churchmen, but the good spots in the church hierarchies tended to go not to the most talented, but those whose families were well connected. This left a lot of highly educated people out on their butts, and cynical. They used what they had learned to compose a lot of profane verse, often directly mocking sacred verses, twisting them into songs about drinking and whoring. But they also harshly criticized the tradition of scholastic philosophy (famously lampooned in the question &quot;how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?&quot;). Although they profaned their source material, they influenced later sacred verses. Frequently their verses were in Latin, though not rarely liberally mixed with vulgar tongues. Yet, with these erudite yet filthy macronic verses, they made a living traveling around singing in taverns and other gatherings.Now, in 5e I now see that it's possible to have Acolyte as a background, whatever your class. Well, I think I know what direction to take my next Bard in.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Johnny Angel, post: 6367194, member: 13334"] Once upon a time, in the real world, there arose a new class of poets known as the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliard"]Goliards[/URL], which blossomed in the 12th and 13th centuries in Europe. They were trained as churchmen, but the good spots in the church hierarchies tended to go not to the most talented, but those whose families were well connected. This left a lot of highly educated people out on their butts, and cynical. They used what they had learned to compose a lot of profane verse, often directly mocking sacred verses, twisting them into songs about drinking and whoring. But they also harshly criticized the tradition of scholastic philosophy (famously lampooned in the question "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"). Although they profaned their source material, they influenced later sacred verses. Frequently their verses were in Latin, though not rarely liberally mixed with vulgar tongues. Yet, with these erudite yet filthy macronic verses, they made a living traveling around singing in taverns and other gatherings. Now, in 5e I now see that it's possible to have Acolyte as a background, whatever your class. Well, I think I know what direction to take my next Bard in. [/QUOTE]

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