A beginner's guide to playing a bard
Are you interested in traveling the lands making merry and singing your way through your adventures? A life as a bard may be the life you want.
Overview
Bards are one of the three semi professions in Elanthia, this means that they hunt using a combination of physical and magical attacks. The unique bard spells are sung, which is unique among all the professions. Bards are capable of singing weapons or armor into existence.
Bards are also possess the unique ability to learn about objects by singing to them.
Character Creation and Skills
Racial Selection
While each race may have particular mechanical advantages or disadvantages when it comes to particular hunting styles as a bard (which are covered in detail elsewhere), one of the most important reasons to select a particular race is role play. If you like, you can be a Dwarven poet who writes long epics about ale; an Aelotoi loremaster who preserves the story of her people through song; a Forest gnome who just wants to share some limericks with the world; a Halfling who busks for tarts; or even something less stereotypical, you can do it. So choose the race you want to play and go from there.
Statistics
There is a general guide on statistics for new players.
Skill Selection
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Songs
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See Also
- Bard (main article)
- New Players' Guide (a comprehensive beginner's guide for new players of any profession)
- Loresinging
- Whirlin's Bard Guide
- The Art of Roleplaying in GemStone IV (guide)
- Player Guide Contest
References
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