Musical instrument as a weapon?

[true_shinken]

A friend of mine wants to play a Bard that uses his music as a weapon. Like, a guitar that deals sound damage or something like that. Any ideas on how to make this work?

[CBDunkerson]

The 'Sound Striker' archetype can do damage with music, and there are a few Bardic Masterpieces that do this as well.

See here

[Thornborn]

Local bard uses the cantrip to summon instruments that he then Rough and Ready into battle with, using some other trait/feat to auto-confirm crits by smashing the guitar over the badguy.

...which might not be what you intend, at all. :)

[Saldiven]

Have the bard play a timpani and use the mallets as clubs. :D

Probably need to mount the timpani on wheels, though....

[Imbicatus]

Thornborn wrote:

Local bard uses the cantrip to summon instruments that he then Rough and Ready into battle with, using some other trait/feat to auto-confirm crits by smashing the guitar over the badguy.

...which might not be what you intend, at all. :)

Was that Disposable Weapon, treating the improvised weapon as a fragile club?

If so, I don't think it works, as you do not have proficiency with any improvised weapon. Catch off-guard removed the penalty, but you are not considered "proficient" with it, so you wouldn't meet the prerequisites.

[Gyromancer]

I've had a guitar built for one of my bards that had a blade on one edge. Basically worked as an axe that I could attack with as part of my performance.