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If Paizo ever puts out a Player Companion focused on bards, I'd like to see Perform expanded to include more skills. Some of these might get lumped in with available Performance types like Oratory, Acting, Comedy or Dance but I'm thinking of stuff like: Ventriloquism, Puppetry, Pantomime, Juggling, Vocal Impressions or Weapon Drills.
Sideshow performances would be cool too and could be its own Performance group. You could include stuff like Human Blockhead, Sword Swallowing, Contortion or Fire Eating.
Back in high school we had a guy who really wanted to use his one man band bard.
A Whistling bard might be fun or one who makes noises with his armpits (and looks like Jim Carrey).
But as odd instruments go, the saw, whiskey jug or the washboard might be interesting.A bard with a Jew's Harp might be fun too.
The aforementioned "Mime" bard would be fun since he would have to mime out every spell that he casts.
Maybe a Bard that plays the spoons?
Maybe a Bard that plays the spoons?
Or go back even further in musical history and play the bones.
Air guitar or hamboning.
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Michael Winslow. Make sound effects to distract your enemies.
I like rocking with an axe personally. Heavy Metal Bard for the win. Bonus points if you go the weapon as an instrument instead of instrument as a weapon route.
Axe.
Not the guitar.
I had a bard who used clapsticks. In battle, he'd switch to a pair of heavy clapsticks that also worked as light maces. Other people described his style as a "sort of a medieval Stomp."
Bonus points if you go the weapon as an instrument instead of instrument as a weapon route.
Well you know what they say: “Any problem you can't solve with a good guitar, is either unsolvable or isn't a problem.”
As for heavy metal instruments, I nominate the 'portable' carrilon. ;)
I had a bard who used clapsticks. In battle, he'd switch to a pair of heavy clapsticks that also worked as light maces. Other people described his style as a "sort of a medieval Stomp."
RUN! Its the picts.
Nah, its just blue man group.
... RUN FASTER!
I had a bard who used clapsticks. In battle, he'd switch to a pair of heavy clapsticks that also worked as light maces. Other people described his style as a "sort of a medieval Stomp."RUN! Its the picts.
Nah, its just blue man group.
... RUN FASTER!
Haha, he did have a blue and silver motif going!
It was fun, though. The rest of the group had trouble imagining the bard as anything other than a stereotypical silly minstrel (you know the kind), and I show up with an acrobatic macho performer who just might start laying the beat on his enemies while dancing and percussing.
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Studpuffin put a harmonica-playing bard in a group of kobolds. It was... well... we ran. Either the harmonica was super effective or we couldn't roll above a five to save our (fantasy) lives.
Humiliating defeat. How can kobolds play the harmonica anyway? Do they even have lips?
i played a puppeteer bard, perform (puppetry) had it's versatile performance tied to disable device and sleight of hand.
Perform (lipsynching).
Remarkably useless.
Or maybe just banging a sword against a shield. Sure, it seems pointless at first, but that steady, monotonous beat can get really unnerving (or at least annoying) after a while.
Bagpipes.
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First of all, 3 words: Song and Silence. It has a section listing a whole bunch of weird musical instruments (from the "so highbrow you'd have to be a dragon to understand" water pipe, to the "oh gods, the horror" banjolele), each with a distinctive influence on bardic performances for which they are used.
Then there's the Wayang Shadow Puppeteer, Paizo's already-present shoe-in for this thread (don't forget your Shadow Stencils!).
Oh, yeah: I got your Mime right here, pal.
Beatboxing Bard would be pretty cool or Riverdance
I like rocking with an axe personally. Heavy Metal Bard for the win. Bonus points if you go the weapon as an instrument instead of instrument as a weapon route.
my puppeteer bard was neither Wayang nor Shadow Puppeteer, but she definitely wasn't PFS legal. mostly due to her own choice of versatile performance and due to her race, but she was played in a home game.
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hopefully the advanced class guide fixes this. Bards are very very lose ended, meaning playing one and not telling the GM what instrument you use is a hassle, because there isn't a list of them. Paizo, just give us a list of allowed things for bards, I would honestly be fine with just four or five each. As long as sock puppets are allowed.
The Accordion.
The Banjo.
The Didgeridoo.
The Bagpipe.
hopefully the advanced class guide fixes this. Bards are very very lose ended, meaning playing one and not telling the GM what instrument you use is a hassle, because there isn't a list of them. Paizo, just give us a list of allowed things for bards, I would honestly be fine with just four or five each. As long as sock puppets are allowed.
Fixes what? The ability to choose your performance? Allowed things hurt if they're the only things your allowed to do...
Side note: How many ranks in perform(Conducting) does it take to make the crowd my instrument? Answer: None. I'm just that charismatic.
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Armpit farts
REAL farts
Burping (like from animaniacs)
Glass bottle (blowing over it)
Glass Armonica
Washboard
For an evil bard
A cat piano (Would work REALLY well for a bard of Zon Kuthon)
Bongo drums made from the skulls of your slain foes
Something made so that the souls of the tortured people trapped within scream in agony as it's played.
Maybe a Bard that plays the spoons?
Nah, play the torches. Fire is always more inspirational than non-fire supplements[spoons].
I played a Changeling Street Performer Bard once who was a con-artist who did fortune-tellings and duped people into thinking they were legitimate Harrowings. Her perform was Perform: Fortune-telling, which I played as a visual performance using a tarot deck.
Cause then you get to repeatedly say "hurdy gurdy".
If you need more convincing: "Lux Aeterna" from Requiem for a Dream on a hurdy gurdy.
I currently play a bard that plays the Kytharra, which is like a harp mixed with a guitar.
juice harp. thumb piano. theremin (but only if you're from Numeria).
The thumb piano (kalimba) can be pretty darn awesome.
As for Numeria, I will still recommend the Reactable.
My group has a houseruled bard spell that allows them to summon a pipe organ into the field (with the clause that the entire space must be unoccupied and it must appear on the ground) that gives the his bardic performances a boost for as long as keeps playing it.
As for Numeria, I will still recommend the Reactable.
That's seriously cool...
If Paizo ever puts out a Player Companion focused on bards, I'd like to see Perform expanded to include more skills. Some of these might get lumped in with available Performance types like Oratory, Acting, Comedy or Dance but I'm thinking of stuff like: Ventriloquism, Puppetry, Pantomime, Juggling, Vocal Impressions or Weapon Drills.
Sideshow performances would be cool too and could be its own Performance group. You could include stuff like Human Blockhead, Sword Swallowing, Contortion or Fire Eating.
I'm seriously inspired to play a Fire Eating and/or Fire Breathing based Bard now. I must make this happen.
*Adds to an impossibly long list of character concepts.*