Comments on: Why Bards Aren’t as Bad as People Think

By: xn0o0cl3

xn0o0cl3 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:21:12 +0000

For a long, long time in our d&d games we always ranked bards as the worst class ever. No one ever played one, no one ever wanted to, they were just the garbage of the player’s handbook, wasted space. A friend of mine who started playing recently was really into character flavor as opposed to mechanics, which was rare for us, so one game he makes a changling bard. I will never question the power of the bard again lol. We were level 3, and found ourselves facing down a pit fiend (apparently our DM had some epic chase scene planned for this. Of course, we weren’t expected to touch this thing.) Instead of running for the nearby ruins like everyone else, my friend shapes into a warforged and slams down his big, adamantine sitar (which he had invested literally ALL of his money in) and rolls his perform check for fascinate: rolls a 19, comes out to 31, and trust me, this could easily have been higher. Pit fiend fails, and bam, fight is over. Everyone turns around to see our bard tearing his fingers apart on his strings, the big scary CR 20 devil only able to stare dumbly. Our DM grudgingly opened up the experience table.

Never doubt the bard.

By: Eclipse

Eclipse — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:40:09 +0000

Hmm, it appears to be mini Q&A time.

The RSS feed can be found at http://gamingmyway.com/feed/
There’s a link on the sidebar to the right as well towards the bottom.

As for finding people local to you to play, there are three ways I can think of. The first is convince a few friends to join you for a game. The second is to hit up a gaming store that lets people hang out and see if anyone there is interested. The third is to find any local or school gaming clubs and join those. If there is a lack of a gaming club, suitably geeky alternatives include book clubs, especially if they have a fantasy or sci-fi theme, and anime clubs. You’ll likely find a fair number of gamers in these clubs and other similar clubs, as there’s a fair bit of overlap in the hobbies. Good luck.

By: Vereen

Vereen — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:30:06 +0000

Is there a way to locate someone locally to try this?

By: Kenry

Kenry — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:01:49 +0000

Haha ^^ nice, is there a section to follow the RSS feed

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:16:00 +0000

Ah, the bard. The best character I ever had was a bard, and she only lasted for about 3 game sessions (fell off a roof and died).

She was mostly just an attention hound, but she also worked as a spy for our party. Tons of fun to get invited to the castle to perform, and walk out with all the info/gold you’d want just because the Baron took a shine to you.

Oh, and she was a juggler, of course – but with a twist. The juggling balls doubled as thrown weapons. (My husband is a juggler and was able to convince our DM that juggling is all about the throwing, not the catching).

That bard was so much fun.