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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8541954" data-attributes="member: 19857">Part of the problem is "what is a bard in 5e"?  The bard is a spellcasting class that can also perform in melee that is a jack of all trades but also is expected to be a performer whose magic is tied to their performance and inspire their colleagues.  As a concept it's kind of all over the place, though the core component of "performer of some type" seems to be the element that holds the class together.I don't blame 5e for this either - the Bard has kind of been a mess of a concept since, oh I dunno, the appendix of the 1e PHB? Though to be fair I don't know that anyone ever expected anyone to actually play a 1e Bard so I'd say the 2e PHB instead...</blockquote>