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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jimlock" data-source="post: 5564218" data-attributes="member: 6674931">..i've played a bard twice in my RPlaying career. While both times it was fun... One of them was a truly memorable experience. i 've said a little about him in the "favorite class poll", but i'll gladly repeat it here...It was 2e Planescape...My bard was a tiefling, human from waist to toe, hyena from head to waist (somewhat like a gnoll). He wasn't the tenor one might expect... not even the baritone type... his voice was really bad... as if he had caught an everlasting cold. His singing was nothing more than a storytellish mumble over his quirky yet flavorful lute playing (some sort of a mediaeval Tom Waits)... He was quite the attraction in one of Sigil's infamous Inns...Plenty of connections in the City of Doors... He always knew someone who eventually knew someone else who could lead him to the information he was after... He was some sort of an "information broker"... Through a combination of his adventuring experience with his innumerable connections he had managed to acquire knowledge on many a portals and their keys in the City of Doors.......Unfortunately he died in the most unexpected of ways... he entered an infinite spiral staircase of which he forgot to mark the entrance... Once the door closed magically behind him, well, he never found it again... there was no way to figure out the number of steps he had taken for he had descended in the staircase for quite a sometime... until he figured it led to nowhere............It was a fascinating experience, for it allowed for great Roleplaying. I remember losing my voice after each session as i tried to imitate his speech. Of course he was neither the tank nor the caster of the party.... not even the rogue one would expect. However the RP opportunities were many and nicely backed up by the DM. I never felt inferior to the party for i really enjoyed simply RPlaying such a character....For a bard to shine... well it greatly depends on the setting and the RPing opportunities... If the DM and players alike enjoy this type of game, picking a bard is far from being annoying in respect to playing alongside more powerful class... On the other hand... in a hack-n-slash type of game this inferiority... slowly... eats the player from inside out.I don't know if your game belongs to the latter... but if it does, i suggest you talk to your DM about how you feel so that he might create more opportunities for your character to shine....If your game is fine and you simple want to create a tank of a bard...then perhaps you do need to see the doctor...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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