The “useless bard” meme is so weird to me. In purely game-mechanical terms, the Dungeons & Dragons bard class has ranged from “a solid B tier” to “grotesquely overpowered” throughout the game’s history, but the one thing it’s never been is useless. It’s like its reputation is based on a purely hypothetical version of the class – one that does nothing but stand around singing – that’s never actually existed in any published iteration of the game.
ok on the one hand I 100% support this one the other hand I once spent an entire fight doing nothing but trying to hit an orc with an arrow and failing while my teammates died around me
to be fair I’ve also managed to get our party attacked by a dragon (and its army), convinced an entire race of lizard people that I was their king, and started a cultural and religious revolution amongst the trolls so I guess it really depends on what u consider ‘useless’
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