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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 3263389" data-attributes="member: 41584">And that's my quibble with the Bard.  It's straightjacketed into a song and dance-themed dragon-blooded pseudo-sorcerer.It could as easily be transformed into a Noble class, using a limited selection of Wizard spells and Wizard casting, to represent the nobility training their young in the arts of magic, and turning the song / music focus into one based on other skills, like Perform (oratory) or Knowledge (tactics) for inspiring speeches and leadership or Knowledge (religion) for a church-sponsored evangelist sort, exhorting his men to greater efforts on behalf of the faith.Remove all 'bard-only' spells related to music (and / or fold the sonic-themed ones into the base Wizard list, along with fireballs and acid arrows) and have the 'Noble' stick to a similarly smaller subset of the Sor/Wiz list, just using Wizard casting (and spellbooks) to represent an educated class (which need not be rich, I could see just about *all* stereotypical elves having this form of 'Bard' as their most common class.  A little bit fighter, a little bit rogue, a little bit wizard, with a flair for the dramatic and an inspiring personality.  It's got 'Tolkein Elf' stamped right on the tin!).Boom.  No need for every Bard to have that quasi-dragon-descended origin of the Sorcerer, or to carry around a harp.  And Gwynneth the Harpsmith might even use Perform (harp) for her inspiration, and be barely recognizable from the bog-standard 3.5 Bard, but she wouldn't *have* to be.</blockquote>

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