D&D 5E (2014) On the Necessity for More Bard Threads

[Ralif Redhammer]

 

[Fenris-77]

So, one time, at Bard camp...

 

[Eltab]

I dunno. Without a Bard in the party, it can be hard to sneak around a crowd. They just draw attention to themselves - all that talking and singing and music.

 

[MichaelSomething]

When 4E decided to kick the Bard out of the PHB there was a negative reaction.

 

[see]

But the Lions? No one even cares enough about them to realize how bad they suck. That's right. Sit back for a second, because I'm about to drop some knowledge on you- the Detroit Lions have won one (1) playoff game since ... 1957. Once. They went an entire season without winning a single game. But not only are they terrible, no one even bothers to mention them as cursed, or unlucky, or even give them a nickname like, "The Factory of Sadness."

Which is weird, because it's really easy to work out what the curse on the Lions is. The last time the franchise was sold was on November 22, 1963.

There are, of course, two things that can break the curse. The first is the Ford family selling the Lions. The second is a subsequent US president dying in office (on the condition that the Lions aren't sold that day, too). Until then, not only is America doomed to have a lousy team playing football every Thanksgiving, but the City of Detroit, by transference, is cursed as well.

Now, you might ask, what, exactly, does any of that have to do with D&D? Well, first, if you can't figure out how to use a curse like that in a game, you're not even trying.

Second, there were two things Detroit was known for in 1963; auto manufacturing, and Motown Records. Both have fled the city limits since, but the Curse of JFK follows them into their D&D class representatives, artificers and bards.

 

[Aldarc]

When 4E decided to kick the Bard out of the PHB there was a negative reaction.

It wasn’t as if 4E hated bards though. WotC wanted a number of other solid classes and races for PHB 2 and 3: e.g., bard, barbarian, druid, monk, etc.