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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demmero" data-source="post: 1452075" data-attributes="member: 13641">I would never, EVER, consider playing a bard in a face-to-face game.  The "I sing to Inspire Courage" line would grow old fast, and the whole concept of singing during a battle would indeed seem kind of lame.  And most bards just aren't built well for combat.  I'd feel like a goof if I tried to sing or recite a bit of poetry at a gaming table, so the class would offer little RPing charm to me.But these days I play exclusively online...so I decided to try my first bard.  And she's now my favorite character, hands down.  I wrote up little snippets of songs for each of her spells and stored them in macros, and when I decide to cast a spell I just hit a few keys and Presto!, my character's actually singing in the game.  I've even written a few longer songs (3-4 stanzas each) to use when she needs to Inspire Courage.  I send one stanza of the song to the screen each round, and then take whatever other action I'm entitled to (if any).Yeah, it takes some extra work, but I have a fairly long train commute to and from work each day and do most of my composing there.  I think it's worth the extra effort because it adds a semblence of realism and flair to the game.As for the bard herself, she's very untraditional.  Her background is that she ran away from an arranged marriage, made her way to the big city, fell in with the wrong crowd and became a prostitute and exotic dancer at a fairly high-brow gentlemen's club where she picked up bits and pieces of the bardic craft from the more traditional bards who occasionally played at the club.  She grew to enjoy the performing part of her job, getting a rush out of being the center of attention of her adoring audience.  Now she's left the club and is out in the real world, tring to make her mark as a legit bard.  She's strong-willed, pig-headed, self-centered, ambitious, and has set her sights on becoming famous.  Kind of uppitty at times, too.She can't fight worth a lick, but she's a blast to RP.  The only bard quality I'm having trouble reconciling to her is Bardic Knowledge; her character background really doesn't allow for her to have a very extensive amount of worldly knowledge.  She probably picked up some bits and pieces of news and info when she worked at the club from the bards who passed through the place and from some of her clients there, and that's a start.  I've decided that to make her extent of knowledge a bit more believable, I'm going to bring out a curious nature in her...have her sit around taverns at night, eavesdrop on folks in the marketplace, generally stick her eyes, nose, and ears into any situation that presents itself.  This tactic might lead to some adventure opportunities or might simply get her into hot water...but that'll give the rest of the party something to do <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />So that's how I play MY bard...including working some song and dance into the mix.</blockquote>

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