What do you call a group of bards?


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A Band!

In the same vein as you might have a pride of lions or a murder of crows, what would might you call a bunch of the same class gathered together?

Some of my thoughts to get us started (feel free to repeat classes with your own version).

Inquisitors - A Judgment
Wizards- A Class


Alchemists - A Destruction
Sorcerers - A Team
Brawlers - A Tumult
Rangers - A Retribution


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Bards - a troupe
Inquisitors - an inquisition
Warpriests - a battle
Wizards - a faculty
Anti-paladins - Oh crap, game over man. Game over!


Or maybe alchemists should be a Cataclysm?

Liberty's Edge

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Alchemists - An accident just waiting to happen
Barbarians - A pack
Bards - TARGET PRACTICE A college
Clerics - A pilgrimage
Druids - A circle
Gunslingers - Four people who made some VERY poor career choices A posse
Fighters - A squad
Monks - ...y'know, I have no idea.
Rangers - Hell, you only need one!


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If there are four of them, then they are a bardbershop quartet. ;)


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A murder of hobos.

Sovereign Court

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Alchemists - The Bomb Squad
Barbarians - The Brute Squad ("I'm on the brute squad" "You ARE the brute squad")
Druids - The Green Team
Oracles - The Dream Team
Slayers - The Death Squad
Summoner - The Odd Squad


Wizards - a lecture

Scarab Sages

Minor correction:
A group of Brawlers is a Tag Team

Scarab Sages

Monks: a Meditation
Rogues: a Con
Hunters/Rangers: a Lodge
Bloodragers: a Massacre
Oracles: a Prophecy
Witches: Coven works, but also, Nap Time
Arcanists: a Thesis Committee
Fighters: an Armory
Skalds: a Saga, or simply a Band (consider band names that feature one or more umlaut)
Paladins: a game breaking hassle


A frenzy of barbarians
A cacophony of bards
A schism of clerics
A commune of druids
A meat-shield of fighters
A conservation of monks (as in, conservation of ninjitsu - that one probably needs some work)
An alignment debate of paladins
A wilderness of rangers
A passel of rogues (OK, not original but it works)
An ego of sorcerors (actually, this works for the singular form too)
A superiority of wizards

An explosion of alchemists (not to be confused with an alchemist's explosion, or indeed an exploding alchemist)
A dearth of cavaliers (it's true, I don't know of anyone who plays one)
A fistful of gunslingers
A scourge of inquisitors
A journey of magi
A portent of oracles
A logistical nightmare of summoners
A hexsplosion of witches (oh yes, I went there)

That'll do for now, at least


A gathering of bards is a gorsedd. A group of such gatherings is referred to as gorseddau.


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Group of bards - Cemetery.


Bards - a murder of puns


Rogues - a heist
Clerics - a conclave
Warpriests- a crusade
Paladins - (in Golarion) Mendev
Brawlers - a tournament
Cavaliers - a stable
Skalds - a flyting
Swashbucklers - a flynn


I don't call the group of bards. Why would I want to hear all that racket?


A soliloquy of bards


A ballet of bards

Scarab Sages

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a horde of Barbarians

a troupe of Bards

a council of Clerics

a synod of Druids

a bristle of Fighters

a solidarity of Monks

an errand of Paladins

a copse of Rangers

an association of Rogues

a krewe of Sorcerers

a class of Wizards

a quandary of Alchemists

a parade of Cavaliers

a gallery of Gunslingers

a mission of Inquisitors

a gift of Magi

a foreboding of Oracles

a menagerie of Summoners

a cabal of Witches

a scourge of Antipaladins

a cell of Ninja

a peerage of Samurai

a fountain of Arcanists

an avalanche of Bloodragers

a club of Brawlers

a pack of Hunters

a firm of Investigators

a concentration of Shamans

a hall of Skalds

a pod of Slayers

a coterie of Swashbucklers

a vanguard of Warpriests

a storm of Kineticists

a stable of Mediums

a conspiracy of Mesmerists

a procession of Spiritualists

a carnival of Occultists

a bedlam of Psychics

Liberty's Edge

a group of rogues is called your players need to learn how to play

A group of summoners is called pokemon

Scarab Sages

snickersimba wrote:

a group of rogues is called your players need to learn how to play

I think that says more about your not knowing how to play a Rogue than it does about this hypothetical group of them. As I've said before, Ali Baba =/= Beowulf, and if you're stuck in the wrong groove then of course your Rogue won't work out well. Please don't turn this into one of those threads.


I think a Choir of Bards
a Tribe of Barbarians
an Order of Monks (or Paladins)
a Squad of Fighters
a Denomination of Clerics
a Sect of Oracles

Although I do love a Murder of Hobos from above.

Scarab Sages

I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:

a cabal of Witches

a hall of Skalds

a carnival of Occultists

I'd like to errata these:

a carnival of Witches

a blot of Skalds

a cabal of Occultists


I thought a group of bards were called difficult terrain.


Halfling Fighters: The pitter patter of little feats

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