Liner Notes: The Role of Bards In A Setting

Medieval fantasy settings have bards. It's something that many players or Dungeon Masters might not even note anymore, especially as the class has been a staple of Dungeons & Dragons for so long now. It's been my experience, in fact, that the class really only comes up – in regards to how it fits the game – when the subject is "How do the various classes balance against eachother?" Like any other class, however, there is a ton of potential there for character backgrounds and conflict to be found if you just go digging around enough.

Casting Conflict: Fighting It Out Over Arcane Traditions

The default assumption of many fantasy game settings is that the magical study wizards devote themselves to is rewarded by the slow – but constant – accumulation of knowledge and power. The fact that this knowledge takes the form of spells that may come from various different ancient masters, widespread cultures, or deep secrets of... Continue Reading →

Flaws to Punch that Inspiration

This is a small expansion of the Inspiration system, utilizing the existing "Flaws" category--but adding some flavor and contingency so players can better grasp when they might be able to leverage their RP for Inspiration with the DM. So, I wanted to help the Backgrounds system get a bit of a facelift. In my game,... Continue Reading →

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