I feel like rolling for penis size is a DnD right of passage lol
but yeah, I get where you're coming from! I mean, I'm not against people playing the cliche bard if thats what they want to do, but I don't like the idea that they HAVE to be played like that.
As weird as this post is it’s actually right on. Remember mythical bards like Taliesin, wise loremasters who the class was built around, or even silly fantasy bards like Jaskier, a three dimensional character who loves his friends and music as much as women. The way people think bards are these days is sad. It’s not just the cliche that frustrates me, or even the immaturity and creepiness of it: it’s the fact that that has no right to BE the bard cliche! It owes more to Sam Riegel than to the Mabinogion.
My bard used to be a sex-driven maniac, but upon meeting his now-husband he returned to his roots as a music maker, storyteller and tailor and that was more fun than having him become a sex-addict. While it's fun to play the cliche because it can cause the DM some anguish (I am the DM now and KDSJLFJSDLF I HATE MY PLAYERS) not following the tropes are much more fun
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Can We Please Stop Characterizing Bards As Weird Interracial Sex Maniacs And Barbarians As Power Gamers, [REDACTED]
I feel like rolling for penis size is a DnD right of passage lol
but yeah, I get where you're coming from! I mean, I'm not against people playing the cliche bard if thats what they want to do, but I don't like the idea that they HAVE to be played like that.
Why did you capitalize every word? Were you writing a headline for a newspaper?
My homestuck sense is tingling....
As weird as this post is it’s actually right on. Remember mythical bards like Taliesin, wise loremasters who the class was built around, or even silly fantasy bards like Jaskier, a three dimensional character who loves his friends and music as much as women. The way people think bards are these days is sad. It’s not just the cliche that frustrates me, or even the immaturity and creepiness of it: it’s the fact that that has no right to BE the bard cliche! It owes more to Sam Riegel than to the Mabinogion.
Wizard (Gandalf) of the Tolkien Club
Edit: forgot to quote
This also bothered me immensely.
Can we stop using apostrophes in titles where there isn't a following
It just makes it incredibly hard to read when it's typed out like that, includes another subject in the middle and then jumps to another subject.
Right? "Bard's" implies something belonging to a Bard or something Bards can do.
Maybe That Will Stop The Bard
Ohh gawd, stahp. =D
Some of you clearly never saw the three page long Curse of Strahd thread from a month or two ago, and it shows.
My bard used to be a sex-driven maniac, but upon meeting his now-husband he returned to his roots as a music maker, storyteller and tailor and that was more fun than having him become a sex-addict. While it's fun to play the cliche because it can cause the DM some anguish (I am the DM now and KDSJLFJSDLF I HATE MY PLAYERS) not following the tropes are much more fun