tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post3592456236268650893..comments2024-03-29T20:04:30.755+08:00Comments on Monsters and Manuals: What Is A Bard? Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-4072947120513597162023-03-07T10:02:18.948+08:002023-03-07T10:02:18.948+08:00"dogs and wolves seemed nonplussed" They..."dogs and wolves seemed nonplussed" They were perplexed or did you mean indifferent?<br /><br />I always considered bards a sort of Orpheus-like class. That or drawn from all the episodes of Bugs Bunny taming the wild beasts with music. :)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11637525062246573256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-59397542929811541752016-12-08T09:10:54.024+08:002016-12-08T09:10:54.024+08:00Historical bards were first and foremost entertain...Historical bards were first and foremost entertainers, who were allowed to cross the boundaries between cultures (like Homer) and in politics, sacred jesters akin to Zen monks. A lot of what is present in entertainment industry today took part in the bardic lifestyle of antiquity. Roman bards were a bit like modern rappers. There is song attributed to roman legionnaires, who joined the Spartacus rebellion: There lived an old cat once, the bitter enemy of mice... one day while the cat was asleep mice snuck out and tied a bell to his tail. Then they made like they are escaping from their hole. The cat jumped after them, but the ringing of the bell startled him and he was so terrified that he jumped up and down to try to get away... Odin when he was Wotan was a patron saint of bards. A bard was a minstrel, who lived as a soldier and as an outlaw and sang to tell about it. Legend had it, that Wotan in disguise will have a drink with a good man, and under the spell of that drink, the man will never be the same again. He would get Wanderlust. He would wander as a soldier or a thief (or a Viking), and he would leave his family and his settled life behind. There are still bardic traditions. There are two schools of guitar play - Chord progression of the Spanish School, and the Medieval string picking style of the Germanic Tradition, best exemplified by Ritchie Blackmore, there is a video of him playing live a classic music piece in a virtuoso picking style. Mark Knopfler is a bard. Bardism is a tendency that competes with pressure to make money via hit singles. His most bardic album is Shangri-La. Today's military bards are common in armies driven by political ideology and gems of their poetry and experience, tainted by partisanship and hidden by linguistic barriers are hidden from the mainstream pop culture. Here is a D&D themed bardic song: <br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG6Dj1RIeag<br /><br />Temple of the King, by Rainbow.Brooser Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08487438364129415650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-17087290999140108372016-12-08T05:12:28.971+08:002016-12-08T05:12:28.971+08:00I think this is brilliant in a game mechanic/class...I think this is brilliant in a game mechanic/class role sort of way. If you approach the game as "different classes are different tools with which to poke at the dungeon" then the class that can communicate with assorted denizens in increasingly sophisticated ways as they progress in levels definitely brings something new to the toolbox. I like it a lot more than the usual view of the bard as the guy who brings a lute to a sword fight. BigFellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03052419088140204154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-42052279355788077392016-12-07T18:43:43.456+08:002016-12-07T18:43:43.456+08:00i have a cat sculpture from bali (a guy was making...i have a cat sculpture from bali (a guy was making for himself not tourists and we nabbed it unfinished) animals hate it and freak out at it - dogs, cats, birds<br /><br />i think plato might have complainedabout art that fooled animals as shallowKonsumterrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170560484656800416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-84907692821089718872016-12-07T13:05:47.599+08:002016-12-07T13:05:47.599+08:00look up kulning. those swedish herding songs are p...look up kulning. those swedish herding songs are pretty related.Pilgrim Processionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04246889904411128383noreply@blogger.com