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You know what's not done enough as special loot? Ancient sheet music for lost songs
Uhhhhh, that's so creative! I really like the idea!
@@Rells2coolpeoplehavebadtastes. What you mean the CURSED SONG ;)
@@StevenLockey Yes! >:)
I once worked on some homebrew that was along those veins, but dropped it when I realized it was a bit too ambitious for me, and I would probably never have a chance to properly implement it.
The idea was Divine Hymns; very intricate but powerful divine magic that could only be harnessed through music and song (probably needing multiple performers, though not all need to be bards). I had nearly a dozen outlined, where each held greater powers the more worldly (i.e. level-based) one became. Each had four levels of potency, each corresponding to one of the four level tiers of play. They were never meant to be something you could quickly cast, but could still drastically change the tide of a given situation.
Each set of sheet music for these Divine Hymns would be either legendary or minor artifacts in their own right, therefore relegating them to either functional McGuffins or high-level aces-up-one's-sleeve status.
Oh well, not everything gets off the drawing board...
@@derekstein6193 Mate, this is too cool to not be put into practice. I implore you to implement them.
When they say music is where everything comes from is probably from the influence lord of the rings had on dnd where the world was sung into existence the bard is a very important class to dnd but personally I’ve only had fun with it when I’m using a joke character for a one shot
I love to use bard NPCs as indicators to the PCs of themselves gaining levels and renown, by having them come to towns they've never visited before, and hearing songs about their own prior adventures
Bard imprisoned bbeg: “haha. Yea we sure had some times. Anyway, here’s Wonderwall.”
TODAYYYY IS GONNA BE THE DAY
Ha! This reminds me of the RUclipsr, The Click. He apparently had a D&D character called Chad Wonderwall who was an exceptional bard, but only knew that one song. So he was nearly guaranteed to succeed with its use the first time, but it always had diminishing returns on repeat performances.
That intro was very well done. Good job, AJ
Glad you enjoyed it
Perhaps now bards will make sense to me
What a fitting intro. Ever heard of “the Aviators”? “Travelers Song” always makes me think of D&D. It’s no surprise, there are three hallmarks every civilization has, the written word, music, and some kind of booze. Never forget to pray to Finder. The Wyvern Spur is the patron deity of fools and the bards who sing about them.
I view Bards more as copycats than seducers, they would practice or help with their teammates daily routines/rituals. Also Bards would be some of the main participants in the public information networks, but would still also be found in the other two. The mane reason a grope would want a Bard with them is battlefield communication.
Not even Elminster, knows this much!!!
bards are interesting but i wish there were options for more of a painter or poet type of bard the other artforms shoukd be more recognized like a painter or sculpter haveing there creations come to life for the bard 😮
Well, there is a bard school that teaches how to animate objects.
24:20 LMAO. Is this the vocal equivalent of the fabled brown note?
Power Word: Puke. (not sure if you can use Command and tell someone to empty their stomach, but hell, I'd allow it!)
@@AJPickett I think you could, but it would manifest as victims physically inducing vomiting (think finger down the throat), as regurgitation is not something that people can typically bring to the occasion by will alone.
After all, if you are swallowed by a Huge creature it will only expel you if you deal it enough internal damage quickly and it fails a Constitution saving throw. Purely autonomous.
@@AJPickett I was just thinking the same thing. I never considered a Command spell used to order some on to vomit, but hell yeah, I would let that one work. I might even let that one cause a second round of inactivity from the NPC you hit with it after the one round of violent retching.
@@AJPickett haha, A rogue/bard team enters a bar. As the bard plays a song: "Dear denizens, good day to all, relax, lend me your ears. My story starts, the first of three parts, so freshen up your beers. Be weary of the tale that comes, accompanied by my lute. For those who lack stomachs of steel will more than likely *puke* "
Puke is bold to show that the incantation was activated. Gere weren't actually 3 parts, it was just said to lull everyone into a false sense of security. While everyone is emptying their stomachs, he rogue is emptying their purses😂
It’s hard to be the bard
It's all fun and games until the bard gets a solo. Than its a party!
That intro was banging. Very apt for a bard video. Love the content, AJ! Thank you for this video.
Fun fact, wombats make an appearance in Chult in the fifth Harpers book.
On this episode of Behind the Music: Dungeons and Dragons edition.
It's a good day when you wake up to see a new upload by your favorite lore master
I've been waiting for this video for 4 years, and you do not disappoint, AJ.
One of the problems I have always had with bards is that Perform skills are charisma-based. Some of them should be dexterity-based. I had to homebrew the rules to make musical instruments use either. I also had to make Oratory performances charisma, intelligence or wisdom based too. I also made singing constitution or charisma based, because any singer can tell you that if you don’t have the lungs for it, you can’t sing worth a damn.
One of my favorite characters was a fighter/rogue with a lot of skill points in Perform, because it was better to be thought of as a bard than some ruffian street thief. It was a goblin fighter/rogue with a Pipes of the Sewers, so he would never be without a source of food, but I twisted it just a bit to make him more interesting. Between being able to juggle, walk tightropes, play the flute, tumble and dance, even the other PCs couldn’t tell what class I was playing until that first time I rolled a sneak attack and hit like a ton of bricks. Since then, pretty much every rogue I play includes some sort of Perform skill.
You don’t have to be a bard to be bard-like. The priest in the film Dragonheart could be described as a bard, the way he was always writing down the stories of Bowen’s exploits. Anselm in The Name of the Rose could also be described as a bard, since the whole story comes from his point of view.
Go wild with it. Break the stereotypes. Stick a little bit of bard into classes that shouldn’t have any bard in them. Be the acrobatic fighter. Be the cleric recording the tales of some great hero in your own party. Be the wizard with lots of showy magic for entertaining a crowd. A bard is a little bit of everything, so it is easy to make everything else like a bard.
I haven’t had a chance to do it yet as a PC, but the idea of a bard-like Druid has been rattling around in my skull for several months. The image in the mind’s eye of an animal companion howling along with song, birds chirping along and Campestri raising their voices in chorus to a Druid sitting on a log playing a flute is just too good not to use, even if it’s just a throwaway moment in a campaign. I might even use that as the way he prays for his spells every day, if the DM is amenable to the idea.
Bards are a lot of fun to play, but you don’t necessarily have to be a bard to be a bard. Go wild with it. Make it your own. Your group will remember it, if nothing else.
One might think playing an instrument would be Dex based, singing and performing charisma based.
@@mikewaterfield3599 That’s why I had to homebrew it to be either. Take as an example Janis Joplin. Her singing voice was not mechanically good, it was hammered home by her charisma. Jim I Hendrix, by comparison, was a master at getting sounds out of a guitar that shouldn’t exist, but he wasn’t very charismatic. That same divide gives you Arlo Guthrie and Bob Dylan, whose songwriting styles were charismatic and intelligent, respectively.
@@almitrahopkins1873 home brew is where the heart is. Besides most rockers are not good musicians or vocalists based on meta measures of such things. Its not always the point thought is it? Sometimes it’s just about what entertains.
You forgot bae'qeshel traditions of the Drow.
"it was a secret tradition for chosen female drow in House Melarn in Ched Nasad until the house's destruction." Just because it's a Drow thing, doesn't make it important enough to mention and the Drow will deny they learned that from surface folk they took as slaves... so, no, I won't acknowledge their cultural appropriation.
@@AJPickett eh, I just remember enjoying the rise and fall of the lady penitent. “The War of the Spider Queen” is still one of my favorite series. Of course the City of Webs is no more.
Neat zoom in. That's a long river.
The music song magic reminds me of the Spellsong Cycle series of novels.
Such a chill intro, loved it ❤
2:36 What exactly was he after? Did he find out the legends he was after?
I would say so, he invented the seven instruments of the Bard and founded a whole character class... sounds like a success story to me.
@@AJPickett You have my thanks.
Nice video. Thanks, AJ.
Rock on AJ!
Now I wonder how bards on Eberron got started. Currently playing a Warforged College of Lord Bard in a Sharn campaign.
Please please tell me he has built in bagpipes for lungs ;)
@@StevenLockey She doesn't but it doesn't mean she won't in the future.
@@elenorefangirl3389 Is there such a thing as quad-disadvantage for your stealth rolls? 🤣
@@StevenLockey Not in our campaign that I know of. :D
If you can’t find it in the books, make it up.
I don’t use bardic colleges in my games. I use bands and orchestras for musicians, Troupes for actors and circuses for physical performers. And those can form wherever two or more bards gather. The only time they are permanent is when the bards of a given orchestra or troupe builds a permanent theatre or auditorium.
The only one that plays a reoccurring role in every one of my games is the World Theatre, where the Grand Bard Wilhelm Shakespar has assembled a troupe of actors. It’s always in a port city, it’s always a capitol of a maritime trading kingdom and it always has musicians, actors, jugglers, tightrope walkers, singers and orators in the streets around it. It isn’t just one building. It’s surrounded by auditoriums, taverns other theatres and the grand fairgrounds, where traveling circuses raise their tents for a few nights before moving on to another city.
If the world you are using doesn’t have what you want, add it. If it has something you don’t want, take it away and replace it. It’s your theatre of the mind, so make it yours.
As a side note, if your warforged bard is not named Calliope, I am very disappointed in you.
Oh please make video about the astral plane
Thanks AJ.
I have been looking forward to this!
great Video AJ very interesting subject
Thanks Chris, I am happy with how this vid turned out.
Oh heeeeeell yeah! Been waiting for this one!
Incredibly good!!
hear hear!
Falataer is a classic player character. I wonder if he's still alive?
Not as far as I know.
@@AJPickett Man that's sad. He honestly seemed like a good man.
Thank you
Arnt you a Bard in some ways??? Yes I know a sage is not a Bard but still.
I am
I'm going to learn to play the lyre harp 🤷♀️
AJ, love listening to your content to relax, but for years you've had the problem of your intros being vastly louder than the rest of the video.
it would really help if you normalized the loudness so that each video doesn't start by assailing eardrums.
All contemporary vids no longer have the musical intro clips (except some special cases such as the Dragon Tales and Character Class videos, and perhaps another series I have planned.
The Calimemnon Crystal
Question. is Dugmaren a possible Patron for Dwarven bards.
forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Dugmaren_Brightmantle Yes, in fact this article provides you with the signs, portents and assistance that Dugmaren Brightmantle provides.
Nice intro! What music is it?
ruclips.net/video/P4qfi4zXQyM/видео.htmlsi=ioIKDWzpDiEvGF3j used under paid licence from Soundstripe.com
Did I miss “College of Valor”? Or is that a made up thing for Balders Gate 3?
Any adivice on building a pr0stitwtion bard?
First you have to find a group of 12-13 year-old boys who can devote the time to a weekly game…
Seriously though, that sort of thing is usually relegated to background information and activity. You’ll quite easily discover the maturity level of your group with that sort of character concept.
Having said that, I once played a character in a Shadowrun game who was stripper as a cover profession for her other, more illicit, profession. One of the other players was a BTL dealer who just happened to be one of the best deckers in the ‘plex, but slinging beetles paid the bills more often. Other than the occasional snide comment from a Mister Johnson about not needing to hire a hooker to do a wizard’s job, the character background was never brought up.
I’m currently working on making a Callistrian priest/rogue for a Pathfinder 1st edition game that I am probably going to abandon because I don’t know that the rest of the party will be able to handle the character background maturely. You have to be able to strike that balance closer to Firefly than to Benny Hill if you don’t want it to totally derail the game.
A bard prostitute is more likely to be more like a geisha than a hooker. That part of it that could derail the game should only be a minor footnote. The bard is the entertainment, not the “entertainment” in that sort of situation. Focus the character skills in bluff, intimidation and the like in addition to performance skills with instruments that are easily carried or concealed. That creates the courtesan, rather than the hooker archetype. The bard prostitute is there for the seduction, not the sex and you should play up that aspect of it.
I don't do character build discussions, you are better off asking a RUclipsr like Indestructoboy. The lore I provided should give you plenty of leads as to where such bards would operate, as for rules? As always, as your DM.
The video starts at @1:52.
You're welcome.
Hey, why not provide time stamps for the whole video while you're at it
No need for anger, I'm just trying to save everyone a little time. I do it for many videos, not just yours.
Love the videos, btw. Keep up the good work, unironically. 👑
Why would you skip the intro lore?
@@zacharyweaver276 There's no lore or even talking; it's just pictures. Did you...not watch that segment yourself? lol
@@IchabodLocust there's commentary that is lore
First!