Builds for Bards of diffrent genres?

[Rfkannen]

Bards are an extremely cool class in pf2e, and the idea of a magical musician is always a ton of fun! The classic image of a bard is usually a medical folk singer with a lute, but there are tons of different genres that you could build a bard to play.

If you wanted to build a Bard who played a specific genre of music, how would you represent that genre mechanically?

Just to give some example genres: A Sea Shanty Bard, A blues bard, a classical bard, a Reggae bard, a hymn bard, a country Bard, etc.

[Castilliano]

So you mean different musical genres, not story genres?

Some are so tied to cultures not present on Golarion that it'd make one's backstory a bit contrived. Not sure there'd be any difficulty other than that as Bard is mechanically lenient re: Perform & instruments.
What mechanical issues are you seeing other than pianos being difficult to cart around on adventures?

[Rfkannen]

Castilliano wrote:

So you mean different musical genres, not story genres?

Some are so tied to cultures not present on Golarion that it'd make one's backstory a bit contrived. Not sure there'd be any difficulty other than that as Bard is mechanically lenient re: Perform & instruments.
What mechanical issues are you seeing other than pianos being difficult to cart around on adventures?

I wasn't seeing an issue, I just thought it would be fun to emphasize things

Here were ideas I had:

For a metal bard you could go warrior bard to be tanky enough to survive headbanging, and then boost intimidating to get battle cry for a strong opener.

For a really sad blues bard you could get dirge of doom.

For a classical bard you could focus on summon spells to get a whole orchestra

Etc

[Castilliano]

Okay, that sounds a lot more fun. :-)

I have seen PCs wield axe weapons* as if they were instruments too. In PF2 that'd be a Warrior Bard, perhaps able to coax out a special item.

*For those unfamiliar, "axe" is a nickname for an electric guitar.

And I've seen Dwarf Bards refer to their rock music. Might be best represented by summoning earth elementals if they can find a way.
Maybe rock-themed fey or kami?

[Perpdepog]

Play a bard who multiclasses into psychic. Their preferred genre? Trance.

I'll see myself out.

[WatersLethe]

Castilliano wrote:

Okay, that sounds a lot more fun. :-)

I have seen PCs wield axe weapons* as if they were instruments too. In PF2 that'd be a Warrior Bard, perhaps able to coax out a special item.

*For those unfamiliar, "axe" is a nickname for an electric guitar.

And I've seen Dwarf Bards refer to their rock music. Might be best represented by summoning earth elementals if they can find a way.
Maybe rock-themed fey or kami?

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