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beccaelizabethI have been reading Pathfinder rules, and I think I might be a Bard.
... a bard with terrible Charisma and great Int who should probably have been a wizard, but.
It's the bit where bards might know something about everything, because random research, even pre internet.
And my musical Performance skills are twenty years rusty and were never that great, but Performance can also be Acting or Oratory. If I could do Bard stuff by recitations or winning speeches I... would still do pretty poorly due to the stutter and losing words when plural people are around, but, would have at least studied relevant knowledge in a recent and ongoing way. Like, I don't Perform it, but I know a bunch of story to be telling, that's kind of like.
... not very like. I have no Class.
Dana is probably a Bard. Has a bit of Dance and a lot of English Literature that can come out as storytelling or other Oratory. Ends up learning a very little magic. Could stat them that way.
Bard who wants to get a good respectable reputation because has to sort out child care.
A Deaf bard has a 20% chance of failing at bard stuff with an audible component. Or, to put it another way, an 80% chance of success. You can screw your chances worse by wearing the wrong armour, I think. So Hartley Rathaway can use audible magic while being immune to it, if he's stubborn enough to accept that 80%.
I still prefer no level or class and wandering around picking up whatever skills you felt like here and there. It seems difficult to make a merchant in this other way.
But if I have a character focused on talking people into things, being encouraging until other people figure something out, knowing key random whatsits, and eventually learning a few limited spells, I apparently have a bard.
which is good to know.
... a bard with terrible Charisma and great Int who should probably have been a wizard, but.
It's the bit where bards might know something about everything, because random research, even pre internet.
And my musical Performance skills are twenty years rusty and were never that great, but Performance can also be Acting or Oratory. If I could do Bard stuff by recitations or winning speeches I... would still do pretty poorly due to the stutter and losing words when plural people are around, but, would have at least studied relevant knowledge in a recent and ongoing way. Like, I don't Perform it, but I know a bunch of story to be telling, that's kind of like.
... not very like. I have no Class.
Dana is probably a Bard. Has a bit of Dance and a lot of English Literature that can come out as storytelling or other Oratory. Ends up learning a very little magic. Could stat them that way.
Bard who wants to get a good respectable reputation because has to sort out child care.
A Deaf bard has a 20% chance of failing at bard stuff with an audible component. Or, to put it another way, an 80% chance of success. You can screw your chances worse by wearing the wrong armour, I think. So Hartley Rathaway can use audible magic while being immune to it, if he's stubborn enough to accept that 80%.
I still prefer no level or class and wandering around picking up whatever skills you felt like here and there. It seems difficult to make a merchant in this other way.
But if I have a character focused on talking people into things, being encouraging until other people figure something out, knowing key random whatsits, and eventually learning a few limited spells, I apparently have a bard.
which is good to know.