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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5148558" data-attributes="member: 54846">I justify it <a href="http://www.hipark.austin.isd.tenet.edu/mythology/orpheus.html" target="_blank">with mythology</a>There's also the Pied Piper, who had to have more than just good flute skills in order to charm both rats, children, and then disappear with the latter. And, if a nymph can be so beautiful it strikes a man blind, I can accept something so joyous or sorrowful that it kills.As far as the deadly song, I justify it with metaphysics. First, in the novel Dead Beat, necromancers animate the dead and keep them under their sway by using a drum beat. This drum beat symbolizes the undead's own heartbeat, tricking it into believing it's alive, and thereby interpreting the Necromancer's commands as its own. Extrapolating this to the Bard, the Bard could easily trick a living heart to follow, syncing up with the rhythm the bard sets out. And then the bard stops, causing the heart to stop. A more simple explanation, the song of the Bard causes the individual to will themselves to death. Finally I justify it with a handwave: it's magic. The bard has always casted spells (and I presume they still do in PF). If it helps you think about it, bards are just very specialized wizard; music as both the verbal and somatic component, and it manifests only in terms of sound, charm and illusion. They exchange the Depth of their magic for their social skills. But they are still spellcasters. If a wizard can point at someone and turn them to stone, or just make them die (power word: Kill, finger of death, etc), then a Bard using music (since that's their form of magic) to do the same isn't beyond reason. Because it's magic.In all honesty, my biggest issue with the bard is that they get no respect. 4e's bard is badass, and yet at the table I get sneered at for being a bard. I routinely get jokes about playing my lute in battle and so on. Even when I go out of my way to describe the fact I'm not a singy/music instrument bard, players still make the assumption.</blockquote>

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