New Posts For Thread: So...how "arcane" should the bard be? What is a bard to you?http://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29453423/So...how_arcane_should_the_bard_be__What_is_a_bard_to_youI thought it would be cool to open up discussion on the bard. I think shared opinions on what a bard "is" would be interesting, be they opinions on mechanical distinctions, narrative "place" in the world, or any other germane considerations.But specThe original poster asked how arcane a bard should be. My answer is that it doesn't matter. One bard relies on magic, another never casts a spell in his life. Both are easily recognizable as bards, because there is one undisputed fact about the bard:http://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29453423/So...how_arcane_should_the_bard_be__What_is_a_bard_to_you?post_id=525478869#525478869The original poster asked how arcane a bard should be. My answer is that it doesn't matter. One bard relies on magic, another never casts a spell in his life. Both are easily recognizable as bards, because there is one undisputed fact about the bard:Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:44:21 -0500I could get on board with that assertion. I would rather they couldn't cast spells as often as a wizard, but still as potent. I would like to see some stuff built in, like more hit points and armor use, as well as some thief skills and knowledge skhttp://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29453423/So...how_arcane_should_the_bard_be__What_is_a_bard_to_you?post_id=525478623#525478623I could get on board with that assertion. I would rather they couldn't cast spells as often as a wizard, but still as potent. I would like to see some stuff built in, like more hit points and armor use, as well as some thief skills and knowledge skFri, 26 Oct 2012 00:17:41 -0500A bard is just a regular spellcaster who knows a performance skill, and has a player who reflavored his spellcasting into being done via performance. Everything else is a background/theme/specialty/whatever.Heck, it doesn't even need to be a spellcahttp://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29453423/So...how_arcane_should_the_bard_be__What_is_a_bard_to_you?post_id=525478553#525478553A bard is just a regular spellcaster who knows a performance skill, and has a player who reflavored his spellcasting into being done via performance. Everything else is a background/theme/specialty/whatever.Heck, it doesn't even need to be a spellcaFri, 26 Oct 2012 00:12:00 -0500On the contrary, magical formulas are all over the place. And I'm not just asserting that, the way you're asserting this eisegetic psionic hypothesis, I'm actually showing you where I'm getting it from the text. In Hávamál, the speakehttp://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29453423/So...how_arcane_should_the_bard_be__What_is_a_bard_to_you?post_id=525477975#525477975On the contrary, magical formulas are all over the place. And I'm not just asserting that, the way you're asserting this eisegetic psionic hypothesis, I'm actually showing you where I'm getting it from the text. In Hávamál, the speakeThu, 25 Oct 2012 23:16:46 -0500But it's close, and that's very suggestive. The futhark gained and lost letters regularly. I very much suspect that that passage of Hávamál is a preserved version of an older rune-poem.Yes, they do say ljóð, which has a brohttp://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29453423/So...how_arcane_should_the_bard_be__What_is_a_bard_to_you?post_id=525476049#525476049But it's close, and that's very suggestive. The futhark gained and lost letters regularly. I very much suspect that that passage of Hávamál is a preserved version of an older rune-poem.Yes, they do say ljóð, which has a broThu, 25 Oct 2012 21:05:17 -0500