I like the idea of doing the gaslighting thing, then later actually casting the spells and gaslighting the party about gaslighting them earlier. What are you talking about, my magic was always exactly this effective
Fun fact, I did more or less this. I was playing a rogue Changeling, and pretending to be an Elf alchemist. I think my favorite part was about two months into gameplay, it came up that my character didn’t have dark vision and another player sighed and said “I thought you were at least being honest about being an elf”
Everybody in the party has long since figured out that their identity is fake but the Changeling is so commited to the bit that they refuse to drop it. Ever. Never ever. Never ever never. - "Marquis Adelaide, consort, advisor, right hand and court alchemist of the Singamagogue empress and jewel of elsewhere - Whos'ad, at your service!" *Cleric shuffles over to the stunned individual* - "Just roll with it"
@@thosebloodybadgers8499 I mean, to be fair, by that point the party had figured out that the disguise wasn’t FOR them, but that the character was too paranoid to drop it even in private
During a 4th edition campaign one of the members in our party switched from an elf rogue to a changling caster of some sort (i forget, its been ages). And he just assumed his previous characters identity. I was the first to figure out something was up when he used an ability that was to magical. That was quite fun.
I once played someone that genuinely thought he was a bard. He had the entertainer background and actor feat, so he was a great artist, but every time he went into combat, he went unconcious as his great old one took over the controls. Kept waking up confused why all enemies were dead, people were running away screaming and why he was crying black blood. With the actor feat, Mask of many Faces and a bit of minor illusion, he could sing duets all on his own.
Choose bard to pretend to use all of your abilities while secretly using your abilities and telling the party that you are using your abilities while making it look like you aren't using your abilities (and spells)...
I once legit succesfully faked casting speak with animals IRL. We were doing a treasure hunt when I was a kid, and we came to a fork in the road. There were a couple ducks there, and I pretended to talk to them. Meanwhile I used my skills of deduction to figure out which way we needed to go. I was right, everyone was baffled. I got a chest of gold(painted iron)bars. Absolute win for me. Always level both intellegence and charisma folks!
I did exactly this! I made a Githyanki who introduced himself as "Wohu Canlong, greatest warrior in all the land!". Whole table thought I was a playing a fighter since I would rush in to the front lines at all times. The DM and I had worked out code words for all my spells and abilities, with my personal favorite being "I believe in you" meaning "I use Bardic Inspiration". The party actually was more shocked at the reveal of my true class than when my real backstory (and name) came out. Good times!
I pretended to be a Monk for about three sessions until I finally managed to track down my lightsab… I mean, Sun Blade and actually reveal myself to be a Jed… I mean, Psi Warrior! Funnily enough, this was the same campaign where our Elf Alchemist gaslighted us into thinking he’s not a Dhampir and our Reborn Warlock gaslighted us into thinking she’s a Human Cleric. Ah, a fun campaign.
I feel the obvious need me which doesn’t get enough press is the Hexblade who pretends to be a paladin-or perhaps Thinks they are a paladin and doesn’t realize that’s not the case…
.... now i'm just imagining a group of level zeroes all lying to each other that they are adventurers with experience... They go on a few shitty adventures, and through the power of fake it til they make it, actually start to actually develop abilities and level up. You would need some Super rollplay driven players, but damn that would be fun.
What are you talking about? That's just playing D&D! It isn't the first session without the fighter talking shit and then immediately getting bodied by a goblin.
That dragonology book unlocked a nostalgia trip I was unprepared for. I love that you mentioned Usopp, because he's exactly what came to mind the more you delved into this Logan lol
I wasn’t paying attention during the add but then he said “Bruce of Holding” and I had to reverse the video to find what the nine-hells he was on about.
I am reminded of a character concept I had of a professor who made a pact woth a demon to secure a place at a university and didn’t actually do any work because of it... and was terrified of being found out. For a campaign about recruiting intelligent people to fight outsiders
The RUclips channel "How to be a great GM" did a short adventure in Dragonlance where his one player was a rogue gaslighting everyone into believing he was a wizard. He even managed to to pass an actual wizard's trial, in one of the funniest and most brilliant performances I've ever seen
I’m playing a half elf bard named Hal Pacino. He was a performer in Baldurs Gate and references different “shows” his been in so I can reference real life movies/shows
Lol that’s what my table does whenever we banter and reference real life media in-character 😂 Turns out Waterdeep has a THRIVING theater and opera scene! And I know for a fact all my homebrew world will feature actual institutions that perform these things 😂
my personal interpretation is even when doing actual magic bards are just gaslighting, you just lie to the face of god so well that even the gods go "ya ok sounds legit", and yes i stole this from kill six billion demons
Wizard and bard both go to college... only the wizards studies and knows a lot about magic and the bard spends his time going to parties, barely passes exams and pretends to know a lot about magic. there you go, be a bard and convince everyone that you are a wizard. Its liek lying in your resume when searching for a job.
I also did something like it once. I had a draconic bloodline sorcerer who had an arm which was draconic and she lived in a place that had a prophecy that said that he who was born in the same family as the sorcerous claw would be the one to depose the false duke (her uncle), who was fairly superstitious. So to save her brother, she fled, covered her arm and pretended to be a warlock, so no one would tip the duke, that her brother was the chosen one.
The pic of Usopp really did just solidify the idea that Usopp is literally just a Bard/Ranger who spends all of his time lying and gaslighting throughout the entire story and everyone actually believes it through sheer force of will. God Usopp's CoK Haki is so freaking strong i cant believe it.
In one campaign I was playing in, I had a character who dressed like a stereotypical bard and wore makeup to accentuate his bard-ness and did all of the comedy and over-the-top schtick like a bard... and was a warlock, who wore the makeup and such because he'd made enough deals with his patron that the makeup kind of covered up how unnaturally pale his skin was and the erratic and humorous behavior was to cover up the fact that his patronage had left big holes in his memory and he had a hard time keeping up with little details.
I once did a barbarian with great conman skills, but he was to stupid to know it… so for instance he threw a bottle of grease so hard no one with a low perception could see it move. So they thought he cast Grease…. It was so fun for a one shot
You know, I could use my bardic abilities to help the party, but why do that when I could wait for something good to happen and then use my bardic abilities to trick everyone into thinking I helped? It's foolproof.
Imagine this bard in a roll playing kind of game (like a situation in usual suspects where Kevin spacey s character bluffs their entire investigation interview with the dectiv so well that they are kaser sose).
"You can just lie" Until that lie is so obsceenly insulting that they just cut your tongue out before you even finish speaking it. "if the rouge cant pick the lock just blame it on Arcane Lock!" The rogue that's power leveled into lockpicking: "it's not actually locked, it's 'BOLTED' shut" "hey our bard isnt doing anything!" "yes i am!" "Lets use him as a sacrifice for the next feral monster encounter!" "PLEASE DM LET ME USE MY CHARISMA TO MANIPULATE PEOPLE IRL" "Speak with dead? Just lie about it!" ok "dude why isnt the corpse speaking?" "it is, just to me" "No you messed up the spell" "NO I JUST KNOW A DIFFERENT VERSION OF IT" *casts speak with dead*, *the corpse very clearly opens its jaw to speak* Wizard: Laughing Bard: Crying
Honestly loved the bard expressions lol. Probably dont have enough irl charisma to pull that off but i may have a jar or like a thumaturge to gaslight people into believing that his random junk has real magical properties that your totally weak to even though you think you no weaknesses. Your just remembering wrong.
This would honestly be kind of neat if you were running them as a Mastermind Rogue. You can Help your allies attack enemies from 30 ft away, which is kind of like Bardic Inspiration. You can pretend to magically unlock things (when really you're just using Thieves Tools). Who needs Disguise Self, when you have Disguise Kits and the ability to mimic other people's speech? And you're a Rogue, so you can always steal magic items to sell your deception. (Granted, you're not a Thief, so you don't get the class ability to use any magic item, regardless of prerequisite. But you can use items that don't have that, or a Ring of Spell Storing if you've got a Wizard NPC you can bribe).
I played a bard rogue, pretending to be a blind cleric for a one off. Had a list of alternate names for the spells and a walking cane that hid my rapier. Had the whole table fooled till i jump off a balcony at a full sprint to chase down the BBEG
My brother played a Bard who gaslighted the entire party into believing that magic doesn't exist. Anything he couldn't explain he would just say that science hasn't figured it out yet.
Pathfinder bards get even crazier. Imagine having a +70 to your Bluff check, then taking the feats Misdirection Tactics. Melee attacks now need to exceed your Bluff bonus to hit you.
Well, this video has been on my dash for a while and I now saw it. Thanks internet bullies. I do think he had a good perspective on bards and not bards.
This is triggering me so hard. You don't need to be a bard to be like that. You can be anything and be like that. You can be like that in real life too
Now I wanna do this with a Trickster Cleric as an homage to Road to El Dorado... Though I did do something similar with Factotum in 3.5. It's REALLY easy to gaslight the party when one minute you're acting like a fighter and the next you're throwing magic missile and because you picked a class from one of the 1000 3.5 splatbooks your party may or may not have fully read you get situations where the "skill monkey" suddenly flying jump kicks a doppleganger into the next timezone and someone exclaims, "Wait he can do that?!"
And if you don't know what a Factotum is, search "D&D 3.5 Factotum" and click the SRD link for it. It's a fun class, and the biggest reason I remain attached to 3.5 D&D since it's basically my class fantasy.
I don’t fully consider bards as arcane casters when a chunk of their spell list are from divine & nature magic classes (without a subclass unlocking them). I guess I’d have to consider them art magic, song of creation and all that.
...wow. I've never wanted to fireball someone and animate their body as an undead so much. And this is only a hypothetical person! If they are actually at the table, I think they would be worse than a kender. And if they were a kender...
In my game my friend kept reworking his character and we made it canon Start off as a bard. Next session reveal you were actually a fighter all along Next session nah actually you were a paladin Next session get this fam i actually was a bard all along, i'm just that good at lying Next session I've found God cuz we need a healer
You could play any class by lying all the time. "Yeah, I totally made a deal with the devil. I'm so edgy guys. I definitely didn't just get this magic from my parents." Or "Hmm, yes, I am a venerable learned wizard. See, here's my spellbook. Oh, those times you cault me talking to my 'sugar daddy'? That's uh, definitely a kink and not at all an extraplanar being granting me this magic." Or any bladelock, which do an excellent job cosplaying a Paladin what with the sword and board and all the smites. Or better, the Barbarian, err "Rogue," who is sneaky by intimidating everyone into not seeing him. And yells "SNEAK ATTACK" to hit the enemy harder whenever he gets mad.
There needs to be more non-magic or soft magic classes. This more subtle bard would go great in a historical or Middle Earth setting. The Greeks saw music and even rhetoric as magical since you are taking words and turning them into something that can change someone else's behavior
Man, I’m playing an eloquence bard right now. I currently have a minimum of 24 on my persuasion and deception checks. I need to start gaslighting the npcs. Reality is what I say it is.
I've long wanted to play an arrogant, egotistical bard who is NOT a dick: He's fully convinced his party members are awesome people, just like he is! Instead of using blistering invective to insult people, it's proclamations that they can't hope to stand against such a mighty force, especially with HIM leading the way! His bardic inspiration's all about gassing up himself and everyone else in the party, and if they DO fail, then well, it's just due to circumstance or a dirty trick from the foe, because he and his friends are too awesome to just FAIL! That's loser talk, and he doesn't hang out with losers, and his party sure as hell aren't losers, because they hang out with him!
I like the idea of doing the gaslighting thing, then later actually casting the spells and gaslighting the party about gaslighting them earlier. What are you talking about, my magic was always exactly this effective
Advanced gaslighting.
MLG=Multi Level Gaslighting
Fun fact, I did more or less this. I was playing a rogue Changeling, and pretending to be an Elf alchemist. I think my favorite part was about two months into gameplay, it came up that my character didn’t have dark vision and another player sighed and said “I thought you were at least being honest about being an elf”
Everybody in the party has long since figured out that their identity is fake but the Changeling is so commited to the bit that they refuse to drop it. Ever. Never ever. Never ever never.
- "Marquis Adelaide, consort, advisor, right hand and court alchemist of the Singamagogue empress and jewel of elsewhere - Whos'ad, at your service!"
*Cleric shuffles over to the stunned individual*
- "Just roll with it"
@@thosebloodybadgers8499 I mean, to be fair, by that point the party had figured out that the disguise wasn’t FOR them, but that the character was too paranoid to drop it even in private
During a 4th edition campaign one of the members in our party switched from an elf rogue to a changling caster of some sort (i forget, its been ages). And he just assumed his previous characters identity. I was the first to figure out something was up when he used an ability that was to magical. That was quite fun.
one of my players did the exact same thing
I once played someone that genuinely thought he was a bard. He had the entertainer background and actor feat, so he was a great artist, but every time he went into combat, he went unconcious as his great old one took over the controls. Kept waking up confused why all enemies were dead, people were running away screaming and why he was crying black blood.
With the actor feat, Mask of many Faces and a bit of minor illusion, he could sing duets all on his own.
That sounds terrifying and brilliant.
warlock then?
Choose bard to pretend to use all of your abilities while secretly using your abilities and telling the party that you are using your abilities while making it look like you aren't using your abilities (and spells)...
Maybe multiclass into sorcerer to get subtle spell, I dunno.
"I'd rather be pretty than smart, I can fake being smart." -a famous lawyer who, ironically, cannot fake being smart.
Gaslighting bards don’t need spells but giving them it makes them terrifying
I once legit succesfully faked casting speak with animals IRL. We were doing a treasure hunt when I was a kid, and we came to a fork in the road. There were a couple ducks there, and I pretended to talk to them. Meanwhile I used my skills of deduction to figure out which way we needed to go. I was right, everyone was baffled. I got a chest of gold(painted iron)bars. Absolute win for me. Always level both intellegence and charisma folks!
"when i was a kid"
Dude you're like 9 rn
@@grimtygranule5125 What makes you say that? You don't know me or my age.
Do tell more
@@LCCWPresents Oh, that was basically it.
It's not a long story.
I did exactly this! I made a Githyanki who introduced himself as "Wohu Canlong, greatest warrior in all the land!". Whole table thought I was a playing a fighter since I would rush in to the front lines at all times. The DM and I had worked out code words for all my spells and abilities, with my personal favorite being "I believe in you" meaning "I use Bardic Inspiration". The party actually was more shocked at the reveal of my true class than when my real backstory (and name) came out. Good times!
I love when classes pretend to be other classes! Can do the same thing for an evil Warlock trying to skate by as a good aligned cleric.
I pretended to be a Monk for about three sessions until I finally managed to track down my lightsab… I mean, Sun Blade and actually reveal myself to be a Jed… I mean, Psi Warrior!
Funnily enough, this was the same campaign where our Elf Alchemist gaslighted us into thinking he’s not a Dhampir and our Reborn Warlock gaslighted us into thinking she’s a Human Cleric. Ah, a fun campaign.
I feel the obvious need me which doesn’t get enough press is the Hexblade who pretends to be a paladin-or perhaps Thinks they are a paladin and doesn’t realize that’s not the case…
.... now i'm just imagining a group of level zeroes all lying to each other that they are adventurers with experience... They go on a few shitty adventures, and through the power of fake it til they make it, actually start to actually develop abilities and level up.
You would need some Super rollplay driven players, but damn that would be fun.
What are you talking about? That's just playing D&D! It isn't the first session without the fighter talking shit and then immediately getting bodied by a goblin.
That dragonology book unlocked a nostalgia trip I was unprepared for. I love that you mentioned Usopp, because he's exactly what came to mind the more you delved into this Logan lol
Usopp is an Artificer with the stats of a Bard but thrives because he somehow always rolls nat20s when it counts
He dipped into divination wizard and took the lucky feat.
ah yes my favorite game Dungeons and Gaslighting
Under-rated comment, the name doesn't quite roll off the tongue tough...Gaslight and Goblins?
@@johnjohnsin3762 ok
I wasn’t paying attention during the add but then he said “Bruce of Holding” and I had to reverse the video to find what the nine-hells he was on about.
Reminds me of that story about the ranger that “never misses” by always saying “I was aiming for that, obviously”
Gaslight Bard reflavor as a god of trickery enjoying some magicless guy's antics
I am reminded of a character concept I had of a professor who made a pact woth a demon to secure a place at a university and didn’t actually do any work because of it... and was terrified of being found out.
For a campaign about recruiting intelligent people to fight outsiders
The RUclips channel "How to be a great GM" did a short adventure in Dragonlance where his one player was a rogue gaslighting everyone into believing he was a wizard. He even managed to to pass an actual wizard's trial, in one of the funniest and most brilliant performances I've ever seen
I’m playing a half elf bard named Hal Pacino. He was a performer in Baldurs Gate and references different “shows” his been in so I can reference real life movies/shows
Lol that’s what my table does whenever we banter and reference real life media in-character 😂
Turns out Waterdeep has a THRIVING theater and opera scene! And I know for a fact all my homebrew world will feature actual institutions that perform these things 😂
In my current campaign Im a wizard and by wizard I mean warlock pretending to be a wizard.
That sounds fun, my first PC was a goblin wild magic sorcerer that thought he was just bad wizard
Forget passive perception, we're using passive deception with this one
The bard takes roleplaying as an adventurer to the extreme by essentially being a role-player in-universe as well.
She rune on my smith till I watch a funny entertaining dnd video
she gas on my light till i bard
my personal interpretation is even when doing actual magic bards are just gaslighting, you just lie to the face of god so well that even the gods go "ya ok sounds legit", and yes i stole this from kill six billion demons
Steal from the best
Wizard and bard both go to college... only the wizards studies and knows a lot about magic and the bard spends his time going to parties, barely passes exams and pretends to know a lot about magic. there you go, be a bard and convince everyone that you are a wizard. Its liek lying in your resume when searching for a job.
Bards are the Frat boys in Wizard College.
Man casually drops a Bard video the day after I decide I’m going to play a bard for my next campaign.
Stop following me
The art you used for the bard is so cute! I loved this smug looking twink ^ ^
For real
you hit, word for word, the somatic components of my character's healing word (college of eloquence)
I love that I can tell when you are on an Adventure TIme watchthrough by your video-edits
It's almost worth watching the Skypeia arc for Enel's faces.
He gave the dude on the stool such a punchable face.
You are literally describing the TV show Psych.
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch is an amazing book about an unreliable BSing narrator that fits with this concept well.
I also did something like it once. I had a draconic bloodline sorcerer who had an arm which was draconic and she lived in a place that had a prophecy that said that he who was born in the same family as the sorcerous claw would be the one to depose the false duke (her uncle), who was fairly superstitious.
So to save her brother, she fled, covered her arm and pretended to be a warlock, so no one would tip the duke, that her brother was the chosen one.
I just imagine that mystra is such a powerful goddess that whoever is on her playlist itstantly gets magical powers
The pic of Usopp really did just solidify the idea that Usopp is literally just a Bard/Ranger who spends all of his time lying and gaslighting throughout the entire story and everyone actually believes it through sheer force of will. God Usopp's CoK Haki is so freaking strong i cant believe it.
In one campaign I was playing in, I had a character who dressed like a stereotypical bard and wore makeup to accentuate his bard-ness and did all of the comedy and over-the-top schtick like a bard... and was a warlock, who wore the makeup and such because he'd made enough deals with his patron that the makeup kind of covered up how unnaturally pale his skin was and the erratic and humorous behavior was to cover up the fact that his patronage had left big holes in his memory and he had a hard time keeping up with little details.
Just finished dawn of ganymede where lilypichu not only gaslights and lies her way through a city but even starts gaslighting the dm. Good times
I do want a Bruce of Holding now that you mention it.
I once did a barbarian with great conman skills, but he was to stupid to know it… so for instance he threw a bottle of grease so hard no one with a low perception could see it move. So they thought he cast Grease…. It was so fun for a one shot
Nah my Bard will be a D&D version of Jack Black with the powers of rock & roll 🤘🎸
I’m now terrified of bards
You know, I could use my bardic abilities to help the party, but why do that when I could wait for something good to happen and then use my bardic abilities to trick everyone into thinking I helped? It's foolproof.
Healing Word: Walk it Off is a genuine fantastic idea
Imagine this bard in a roll playing kind of game (like a situation in usual suspects where Kevin spacey s character bluffs their entire investigation interview with the dectiv so well that they are kaser sose).
"You can just lie"
Until that lie is so obsceenly insulting that they just cut your tongue out before you even finish speaking it.
"if the rouge cant pick the lock just blame it on Arcane Lock!"
The rogue that's power leveled into lockpicking: "it's not actually locked, it's 'BOLTED' shut"
"hey our bard isnt doing anything!"
"yes i am!"
"Lets use him as a sacrifice for the next feral monster encounter!"
"PLEASE DM LET ME USE MY CHARISMA TO MANIPULATE PEOPLE IRL"
"Speak with dead? Just lie about it!"
ok
"dude why isnt the corpse speaking?"
"it is, just to me"
"No you messed up the spell"
"NO I JUST KNOW A DIFFERENT VERSION OF IT"
*casts speak with dead*, *the corpse very clearly opens its jaw to speak*
Wizard: Laughing
Bard: Crying
A sorcerer can super easily pretend to be a wizard by carrying a book around and writing in it constantly
Honestly loved the bard expressions lol. Probably dont have enough irl charisma to pull that off but i may have a jar or like a thumaturge to gaslight people into believing that his random junk has real magical properties that your totally weak to even though you think you no weaknesses. Your just remembering wrong.
I played a kenku merchant like this he spoke like spamton and really wanted your bank statements
This is just Catch Me If You Can with more dead polygamist parents
Basically my Eloquence Bard in a nutshell. Master of gaslighting and projecting he was
Wish is just gaslighting the universe so hard that it comes true
Basically that blonde professor from the second Harry Potter movie.
This would honestly be kind of neat if you were running them as a Mastermind Rogue. You can Help your allies attack enemies from 30 ft away, which is kind of like Bardic Inspiration. You can pretend to magically unlock things (when really you're just using Thieves Tools). Who needs Disguise Self, when you have Disguise Kits and the ability to mimic other people's speech? And you're a Rogue, so you can always steal magic items to sell your deception. (Granted, you're not a Thief, so you don't get the class ability to use any magic item, regardless of prerequisite. But you can use items that don't have that, or a Ring of Spell Storing if you've got a Wizard NPC you can bribe).
I played a bard rogue, pretending to be a blind cleric for a one off. Had a list of alternate names for the spells and a walking cane that hid my rapier. Had the whole table fooled till i jump off a balcony at a full sprint to chase down the BBEG
My brother played a Bard who gaslighted the entire party into believing that magic doesn't exist. Anything he couldn't explain he would just say that science hasn't figured it out yet.
Pathfinder bards get even crazier.
Imagine having a +70 to your Bluff check, then taking the feats Misdirection Tactics. Melee attacks now need to exceed your Bluff bonus to hit you.
Well, this video has been on my dash for a while and I now saw it. Thanks internet bullies. I do think he had a good perspective on bards and not bards.
Cutting words just be R2-D2 all the droids lines had to be censored.
I actually played a bard/sorceress that convinced everyone she was a cleric because she could heal and clerics can definitely twincast haste.
This bit only sounds fun if the whole table is in on the joke.
At which point, you are just Glenn Close from dungeons and daddies
Healing word: Use a healers kit with the feat. Healers kit has no range requriement.
This is triggering me so hard. You don't need to be a bard to be like that. You can be anything and be like that. You can be like that in real life too
So, my bard was a brewer. It was funny because his song of rest was just getting the party black out drunk or ruffying them.
Now I wanna do this with a Trickster Cleric as an homage to Road to El Dorado... Though I did do something similar with Factotum in 3.5. It's REALLY easy to gaslight the party when one minute you're acting like a fighter and the next you're throwing magic missile and because you picked a class from one of the 1000 3.5 splatbooks your party may or may not have fully read you get situations where the "skill monkey" suddenly flying jump kicks a doppleganger into the next timezone and someone exclaims, "Wait he can do that?!"
And if you don't know what a Factotum is, search "D&D 3.5 Factotum" and click the SRD link for it. It's a fun class, and the biggest reason I remain attached to 3.5 D&D since it's basically my class fantasy.
Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girl Bard.
This reminds me of a yuan-ti fiend warlock build I did once that pretends to be a human wizard lol
I don’t fully consider bards as arcane casters when a chunk of their spell list are from divine & nature magic classes (without a subclass unlocking them). I guess I’d have to consider them art magic, song of creation and all that.
Reverse gaslighting bard, be a sorcerer with a lute and just tell everyone youre a bard
I love the idea of a bard who's just a guy who can play the guitar kinda okay but ua great at gaslighting everyone into thinking he's a spell caster.
I've been greatly inspired and will bring suffering to others when I'm playing a bard next >= 3
This video made me question everything. I don't have to try to be good... just a good liar. LOL
Now I really wanna play Reagan arataka in dnd
A gaslighting bard is almost as good as a wild magic barbarian who confidently asserts they're a wizard.
So you're basically playing as Gilderoy Lockhart
...wow. I've never wanted to fireball someone and animate their body as an undead so much. And this is only a hypothetical person! If they are actually at the table, I think they would be worse than a kender. And if they were a kender...
How to gaslight your DM into rolling your dice for you.
Runesmith is kinda just describing Glen Close from Dungeons and Daddies
Algorithm Boost
Video title should be Gaslight bard need Gaslight
How Hollywoods being run right now.
Thank you for what you do!! Keep it up!!
In my game my friend kept reworking his character and we made it canon
Start off as a bard.
Next session reveal you were actually a fighter all along
Next session nah actually you were a paladin
Next session get this fam i actually was a bard all along, i'm just that good at lying
Next session I've found God cuz we need a healer
Best way to start the day: LYING
You could play any class by lying all the time.
"Yeah, I totally made a deal with the devil. I'm so edgy guys. I definitely didn't just get this magic from my parents." Or "Hmm, yes, I am a venerable learned wizard. See, here's my spellbook. Oh, those times you cault me talking to my 'sugar daddy'? That's uh, definitely a kink and not at all an extraplanar being granting me this magic."
Or any bladelock, which do an excellent job cosplaying a Paladin what with the sword and board and all the smites.
Or better, the Barbarian, err "Rogue," who is sneaky by intimidating everyone into not seeing him. And yells "SNEAK ATTACK" to hit the enemy harder whenever he gets mad.
A bard that can do spells, but for lore reasons, chooses not to, so he just does cheap tricks
man I'd love to get me that bruce, but shipping+VAT would absolutely murder my budget
There needs to be more non-magic or soft magic classes. This more subtle bard would go great in a historical or Middle Earth setting.
The Greeks saw music and even rhetoric as magical since you are taking words and turning them into something that can change someone else's behavior
Let me sing you the tale of Tandem the Spooney
Technically, If you use a rogue's expertise for charisma, you can be even better at charisma rolls than a bard
Not the Colleen Ballinger Cameo 😂😂😂
Man, I’m playing an eloquence bard right now. I currently have a minimum of 24 on my persuasion and deception checks. I need to start gaslighting the npcs. Reality is what I say it is.
BRUCE OF HOLDING!!!!
the BBEG is just The Bard but if all of what he said about himself was true.
Bless 'em
This is the guy from the dnd movie
I've long wanted to play an arrogant, egotistical bard who is NOT a dick: He's fully convinced his party members are awesome people, just like he is! Instead of using blistering invective to insult people, it's proclamations that they can't hope to stand against such a mighty force, especially with HIM leading the way! His bardic inspiration's all about gassing up himself and everyone else in the party, and if they DO fail, then well, it's just due to circumstance or a dirty trick from the foe, because he and his friends are too awesome to just FAIL! That's loser talk, and he doesn't hang out with losers, and his party sure as hell aren't losers, because they hang out with him!
This is just a video about how to play Volothamp Geddarm
I need to find another dnd group, because this is interesting to try. (I normally play rouge characters or purposefully weak dnd characters).
Why, why does that character, just sitting on a chair and changing their expression every now and again, make me feel thing?