Make YOUR Bard

Hope I inspired you to make some cool characters; the ones YOU want to make!

I’ve also got two discord servers!

Music Credits: Pretty much everything by Kevin MacLeod

[chalkeater]

“Tell us about your character”
“Oh he’s a bard”
“Alright, of what college?”
“Uh, Harvard...?”

[Zedrinbot]

Bards don't have to be song-based either; poets and orators are also suitable concepts. One bard concept I have is a dude who's just trying to write down the most epic tale ever for a novel, so he goes with the party and sometimes makes their stories seem way more grandiose than they actually were. He's so obsessed with a good story / source of conflict that he kinda does the Goku thing of helping the enemy JUST enough to make it a riskier / higher stakes fight.

[c.]

"imagine a fighter who incorporates singing directly into fighting"
oh I've been doing that for years chief, no worries. anyway, for unrelated reasons, time to watch some super old AMVs.

[eric_moore-]

"They can sing, dance, paint, prance, make a pretty dirt drawing with a Lance. Plenty of ways to further enhance the battlefield, if given the right chance." - JoCat

[macky]

I have a halfling College of Creation Bard. She does not use instruments, she draws and paints to cast spells and calligraphy to describe things. She uses paints to create things out of thin air. She's playing Scribblenauts.

[Skeletonk]

>every bard has a song
>me while fighting a group of gnolls
"-'M HAVING A GOOD TIME! HAVING A GOOD TIME! I'M A SUPERSTAR REEADY TO EXPLOOOODE-"

[McFlamejob]

"You can make a bard without the performer background"
Every bard player: *has their conciousness siphoned into the astral expanse from the sheer mass of higher knowledge they've obtained*

[pandorawolf]

I once made a bard that was a mute, and would just play his Violin to respond to roleplay and inform about decisions and such. And i even made a custom soundboard to properly play with him during online sessions. It was pretty cool.

[gaidencastro]

Bynn: A Changeling Lore Bard. Having read tomes from an ancient Grung Race, they preserve tales that detail hundreds of different ancient civilizations and races. They use their shapeshifting powers to essentially become the people they tell stories of, or at least an approximation.

If you can't tell, they're Ben 10 the Bard.

[reillycurran]

Meanwhile I made a bard who's entire existence is as a meta satire of the edgelord "my character is secretly undead" or "my character is secretly a dragon" or "my character is secretly a half devil" trope.

She's secretly a unicorn, she is a sword bard who fences with a rapier, has long flowing pink hair and shiny greenish tint skin, and her name is literally a pun that translates as horse girl in another language. She's a bard because it's the class that starts with a rapier and lets her keep her unicorn healing magic, and she became a sword bard because unicorns get really good at fighting with that one long pointy object they got.

[MrEpicDwarf]

Get an F for my boys in the College of Eloquence.

[thenethersheep]

I love bards that break the mold for how they cast. singing a song is a classic and a good choice, but hearing of a bard that paints the air making his art come to life, or one that dances in a specific way to a beat. Bards are about art and art can be anything it is so flexible

[fortho-the-clortho]

"Imagine a fighter who incorporates singing into their fighting." So is anybody with me to build a pirate captain that sings sea shantys to devastating effect to rally his men and strike fear into the souls of the people he is up against besting odds that no mortal men should simply because of the rallying songs of their captain.

[cwovictor]

I'd like to emphasize that bards need not be limited to just music. Their only constant is some manner of creative expression. A blade can be a capoeira dancer with daggers bound to their wrists and ankles. A lore can be a novelist or poet that inspires their allies with promises of cementing their legacy in history. A whisper can be a painter that over-glorifies one side or villanizes another to sway public opinion one way or another.

[chrisppx]

Musical Bard: Broke


Bard who makes youtube videos about monsters: Woke

[AndTheMan]

"Semidaily walks" beautifully put

[DashingSteel]

"imagine a fighter who incorporates singing directly into fighting"

*Y'ALL MIND IF I HUM "Megalovania" TO MYSELF EACH TIME I GO ABOUT STABBING PEOPLE?*

[Madman]

“Stories that are lost to us forever”
Was thinking about Unnus Annus before the video of an old dnd campaign showed you

[wanderingshade]

Bardic College: Lore
Race: Vedalkin
Name: Michael Stevens

Song: VSAUCE

[worthasandwich]

The bard I am playing in our current game is functionally Chaotic Evil Mary Poppins. She is very support focused for the party. She also tries to convince children would be adventures the quickest way to power is to make a pact with a demon or other worldly being, through song!