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[Thomas Shey]

Honestly, I think my biggest problem with the Bard is the name. If they had called it "Adventurer" or even "Scoundrel," I'd probably have a higher opinion of them. But instead they called it "bard," so now there's always a dumb lute hanging around, pasted over an otherwise cohesive character concept like a piece of Microsoft Word clipart.

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"Sure, I'm in combat and armed with a sword, but look at my lute, isn't it awesome?! I bet you thought I was a rogue but no, I have a lute and that means I'm a bard!"

Pbbth.

Historical momentum tends to have an almost overwhelming heft in the D&D sphere some times, and that one goes waaaay back.

 

[Saracenus]

I am beginning to think that there are quite a few threads that would be funnier and more fun to read if the OP has just put a (+) on the topic...

 

[Umbran]

Historical momentum tends to have an almost overwhelming heft in the D&D sphere some times, and that one goes waaaay back.

Thinking about it, historical momentum tends to have an almost overwhelming heft in RPGs, in general. Every system line has a bundle of sacred details that they carry around with them - they carry the identity of the product line.

 

[Ryujin]

Thinking about it, historical momentum tends to have an almost overwhelming heft in RPGs, in general. Every system line has a bundle of sacred details that they carry around with them - they carry the identity of the product line.

And publishers mess with those at their peril.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Thinking about it, historical momentum tends to have an almost overwhelming heft in RPGs, in general. Every system line has a bundle of sacred details that they carry around with them - they carry the identity of the product line.

Not untrue, but there are relatively few that have the sort of historical momentum that D&D has, in part because of its age, and in part because a fair number of games just have less distinct identity in that sense. With some of them, the majority of what you're going to see it terminology or core mechanical approaches; they don't tend to have big attached mechanical constructs like classes or distinct monsters.

(And of course sometimes a game will, across editions, make a sharp turn and let it stick.)

 

[trappedslider]

And the beat goes on, drone drone like a metronome

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

And publishers mess with those at their peril.

I suspect you can make WotC execs flinch by asking when halflings are going back to having dreadlocks and living on rafts again.

 

[Scribe]

EDIT: OK that thread is spicier than it deserved to be.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I suspect you can make WotC execs flinch by asking when halflings are going back to having dreadlocks and living on rafts again.

Ahhh, the Raftafarian era…

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Just time to unwatch at this point…