Listening to some music while I was building a character, and I had an idea. Just a jazz bard, or maybe warlock that made a pact with a devil of jazz or something. How should I go about these?
Do saxophones exist in your DM's campaign world? It might help you to play in a setting where metal instruments are not exceedingly rare, like Eberron.
I know of a Jazz band (and not CW or Hillbilly - mostly funk but occasional smooth blues) consisting of a bassist, a harmonica, a banjo, and simple drums. Jazz is viable with any instruments.
The question is if the style is viable in the setting you choose. Do you really want to demonize Jazz to insert it into your setting? Is it IRL Jazz in its entire spectrum of styles or is it a kind of Jazz that is foreign to the real modern world based only on the available folk influences elsewhere in the setting?
Dropping in IRL stuff into fantasy settings without setting-viable explanations rips me out of any suspension of disbelief or any level of immersion.
I love many kinds of Jazz IRL, but I am having difficulty imaging its birth in the typical fantasy setting.
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
I recommend playing a Tabaxi Archfiend Warlock (maybe multiclass into bard) who plays jazz, and serves the Archdevil of Jazz (Beelze-bop?). This sounds like a hilariously fun character to play.
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Listening to some music while I was building a character, and I had an idea. Just a jazz bard, or maybe warlock that made a pact with a devil of jazz or something. How should I go about these?
jazz is great it makes me feel like I'm in a jazz concert
What kind of powers are you thinking of?
Do saxophones exist in your DM's campaign world? It might help you to play in a setting where metal instruments are not exceedingly rare, like Eberron.
I know of a Jazz band (and not CW or Hillbilly - mostly funk but occasional smooth blues) consisting of a bassist, a harmonica, a banjo, and simple drums. Jazz is viable with any instruments.
The question is if the style is viable in the setting you choose. Do you really want to demonize Jazz to insert it into your setting? Is it IRL Jazz in its entire spectrum of styles or is it a kind of Jazz that is foreign to the real modern world based only on the available folk influences elsewhere in the setting?
Dropping in IRL stuff into fantasy settings without setting-viable explanations rips me out of any suspension of disbelief or any level of immersion.
I love many kinds of Jazz IRL, but I am having difficulty imaging its birth in the typical fantasy setting.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
I recommend playing a Tabaxi Archfiend Warlock (maybe multiclass into bard) who plays jazz, and serves the Archdevil of Jazz (Beelze-bop?). This sounds like a hilariously fun character to play.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
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