#bard class

[pansexualnoodle5]

I dare you to look any one of these fuckers in the eye and tell them that you can’t be a badass if you’re a bard.

#BARDS ARE FINALLY GETTING RESPECT AND I AM HERE FOR IT #honor among thieves #dnd honor among thieves #edgin darvis #the legend of vox machina #scanlan shorthalt #the witcher #jaskier #raine whispers #the owl house #dnd bard #bard class

[dungeons-and-dictions]

#dnd #dnd humor #bard class #dance party #bard memes #dnd memes

[starlit1daydream]

Gordon Freeman's classpect: and why you're all wrong about it

well forgive me for the hostile-sounding title there, but as it stands i'm yet to see a single other person with this take.

the unanimous agreement for gordon's title seems to be heir of hope - which i will give credence to as making a lot of sense at face value. the heir is the class of the typical 'hero' and hope is the aspect of belief, faith, deficiation, angelic symbolism. on paper, it works perfectly for a man held in such high regard as a saviour and liberator.

but what of gordon's personality? what little of it we see, of course.

the heir of hope argument applies a classpect to gordon not as a person, but as a concept.

gordon freeman the concept is an heir of hope, for sure.

but gordon freeman, the man?

gordon freeman, the scientist who was late to his first day on the job? whose brief glimpses into his personality include blowing up a man's casserole for no clear reason and solving every problem with a crowbar?

the gordon freeman who has been jumping from trauma to trauma for twenty years under the machinations of a sinister interdimensional bureaucrat?

hear me out here.

gordon freeman is a bard of void.

now, i should probably explain my thoughts on the bard class and the void aspect before going any further, since this entire take hinges on my very specific take on both things.

in my eyes, the bard (the passive destroyer) is somebody who initially ghosts adherence to their opposing aspect, until a traumatic incident or dire crisis suddenly pushes them into an influx of their real aspect. they change their tune from passively destroying their aspect in themselves to passively destroying through their aspect. bards are capricious, unpredictable people who are often cowardly, avoidant or lazy in their ways.

the aspect of void, the antithesis of light, deals with the eldritch and the unknown. void is shadow, void is doubt and obsfucation, it is by its very nature unknowable and exists in the dark corners of one's mind. void is narrative irrelevance given (a lack of) form.

so, how does this fit into gordon freeman's narrative?

let's get into his head.

gordon freeman is a man who, prior to the black mesa incident, has lived his life adhering to knowledge and science. he's studied, got a degree, probably quite passionate about science. the statistics, the thirst for knowledge and understanding, all of this paints a picture of light.

light players are the ultimate students, as the extended zodiac says, they are the knowledge-seekers who wish to understand the world around them and comprehend the most fortuitous path better than any other.

the guy shows up late to his first day on the job. a man with more degrees than should be feasible and he can't even show up to work on time. this is the first hint of gordon being a bard, it's an incredibly lazy and capricious action that also hints at his passive destruction of light through his lack of fortune.

and it's that fateful test that changes everything - you all know the one i mean.

the one that suddenly inundates him with void. suddenly, gordon's world is unknowable, incomprehensible, he is a slave to the plot and forced to keep driving forward a narrative to which he ultimately has no say in. it's another example of the traits of a bard, who generally do seem to be reduced to narrative devices. (we see this a lot with gamzee.)

gordon is consumed among the alien and eldritch, and emerges from black mesa's ruins anew. a man whose existence is defined by contradiction, doubt, obfuscation, and everything that void stands for.

we see it again and again throughout the series. his very existence within the combine's rigidly defined, meticulous and mechanical empire defies principle. he is the anticitizen, his presence within their world is a contradiction just by his very being. he is undocumented, an anomaly that shouldn't be. and that scares the shit out of them.

and it should! because, as a bard of void should, gordon destroys their empire through void. his very existence is enough to spark the revolution (which in itself is tied to the aspects of hope and rage) and the destruction he brings about is through his nature as the anticitizen. the contradiction, the hole in their logic. he casts doubt upon the system that they've forced into place and he does so while continually being surrounded by the eldritch and the unknown.

he does so while in servitude to the eldritch, actually. i think that g-man himself is a player of space (to be more specific, i think he is a lord) but i think that there is also a lot of void symbolism within the g-man's character and his 'employers' more specifically.

and you know what really cinches my argument?

gordon freeman, player of void, embodiment of the unknown and the obsfucation, of the silence and emptiness, of the doubt and darkness?

he never utters a single word.

i will revise this entire thing once i wake up tomorrow because it's currently 10pm for me and this is going to look incredibly lazily worded/formatted when i get up in the morning

but for now i suppose you can all take this rambling mess of uncoordinated madness and tell me how wrong i am

#gordon freeman #half life #homestuck #bard of void #bard class #void aspect #homestuck analysis #classpect analysis

[verosvault]

🚨SPOILERS FOR FANTASY HIGH JUNIOR YEAR EPISODE 3!!!🚨

Dimension20 "Fantasy High Junior Year"

Episode 3 "Not All Who Wanda Are Lost"

Timestamp: 1:48:05

Video Length: 1min. & 35sec.

Fig finally goes to bard class! 😂🤣💀

Imagine how much more DOPE Fantasy High would've been if we got to meet Lucilla in freshman year?! ;0

I can already tell that she's an AMAZING teacher and she might already be my favorite teacher honestly! 💀✋ I can't say cause it might be a bit too early but I LOVE the way Lucilla speaks and I love her vibes! 😭💀✋

Fig tries to go listen to bard class and fails a stealth roll so she ends up getting caught as she tries to listen to it. 😂🤣💀

She just IMMEDIATELY gets caught! 😂 Which I guess is kinda good cause that class is exactly where she needed to be! 😭✋

LUCILLA'S REACTION WHEN SHE SEES FIG IS ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING! I CAN'T STOP REPLAYING IT! 😭 IT'S SO PURE! I CAN'T! 😭✋ I LOVE HER SO BAD! 😭😭✋✋ The fact that she like...just immediately accepted Fig to come inside and didn't guilt trip her or whatever for never showing up ever! 😭✋ Like- OMG! That's such a good teacher fr! 😭✋ Lucilla literally treated Fig's entrance into the bard class as a celebration! 😭✋ This is how you get a student who never shows up to class to actually show up! By showing that you actually care about them being there or not! 😭✋

Does Ruben hate Fig already?! ;0 I mean...I know she just walked into a classroom via a window! But that shouldn't be enough of a thing to be bothered by to receive a smile with a sneer! 😭✋

Lola Embers!!! ;00000

Emily's face when Brennan says that name 💀 she looks like her soul left her a little. 💀

The way Ruben sounds when he says "I have to answer that later". It's so-! Ruben has kind-of a nasally voice which I find to be very interesting. Idk why.

Anywho! Hopefully Fig ends up staying in her bard classes this semester!! 😂 Not ONLY so Fig can pass the year! But also cause I desperately want some more Lucilla scenes! 😂🤣💀😆❤️

#dimension 20 #dimension20 #blog #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #not all who wanda are lost #fantasy high not all who wanda are lost #fantasy high junior year episode 3 #fantasy high scene #fantasy high junior year scene #dimension20 scene #brennan lee mulligan #lucilla lullaby #emily axford #fig #figueroth faeth #fig faeth #bard class #ruben #ruben hopclap #lola embers #fig finally goes to bard class fr! #intrepid heroes #the bad kids

[chainsawmascara]

PS i made these. The hoodie is SO SOFT. Too comfortable. Should be illegal. I live in it now.

Idr if i put up the bard shirt already. Work with me here. I think i did? DECEPTION ROLL I DIDN'T.

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate iii #baldurs gate astarion #astarion #astarion ancunin #dnd #ttrpg #THEY ALWAYS FUCKING MISS #this is what i look like guys #shameless self promotion #bard #bard class

[mintithecheetah]

This is one of my DnTea Series of Dungeons and Dragons Class themed Tea Cups! I am personally a huge fan of the Bard.

This and many others are available as shirts in my shop!

#dungeons and dragons #dnd #tea time #tea cup art #bard #bard class #dungeons and dragons art #my art #artists on tumblr #digital art #illustration #dnd illustration

[waluigisgaybf]

Playing a Bard in literally ANY charisma based roll.

#bg3 #hes finally self aware and realizes hes never failed a charisma roll bfafjakf #bg3 bard #Baldurs Gate 3 #bg3 funny #bard class #Bard Charisma #bg3 Charisma #Baldurs Gate #dnd 5e #Bard #Bard bg3 #baldurs gate 3 meme #baldurs Gate 3 joke #bg3 dialouge #bard dialogue

[cowillin]

My new DnD Charakter! :>

Usually, I am a DM buuuttt a friend of mine, will be Dming for their birthday. So, here my Aarakocra bard! Who still doesn’t have name so if anyone has any ideas let me know ^^

#dnd #art #artwork #beginner artist #dnd character #dnd art #dnd5e #dnd oc #dnd campaign #aarakocra #bard #bard class

[rogue-of-heart-classpecting]

ayo im kinda trying to assign a classpect to myself and im stuck between Bard of Void and Prince of Time can u please tell me more bout it?

Ok!!!

BARD OF VOID

The bard is someone who basically thinks, feels, acts, or IS one way for most of their life up until a point where they change fundamentally and become the exact opposite. In a destructive way. For a bard of void, this might look like encouraging people to look things up, explaining things to others, Passively Destroying Void. By encouraging light. They would value knowledge and enjoy learning. OR luck or like water or actual light or whatever. At some point the bard would suddenly realize like… mysticism and not knowing some things is actually the correct… way. To be. Like they change their mind. And then they start destroying shit. Perhaps literally. Burning libraries, shooting out lights, maybe they could even manipulate the heroic/just clock to cause people to die or not die (luck can influence the outcome as seen by aranea and I think maybe vriska I can’t remember). This time they would be Passively Destroying USING Void. Ok? And like let’s not forget they can still passively destroy void as well. And they could destroy using void before. Maybe now they tell people misinformation… they… hmm… using void to destroy… they could thanos snap people out of existence? Into the negative space? That’s destructive. They could perhaps send basically ANYTHING into the shadow realm. And before….. they would have been able to destroy using void… that might look likeeee…. I’m trying to think about gamzee pre-sober. Destroying using rage. I’m thinking about when he tries to pray his computer out of his sylladex and then it doesn’t work so he just grabs it? That’s sort of destroying by debunking… since rage is about the truth. You see what I’m saying? So before, the bard of void could have been like trying to look something up and then just given up and decided it’s best that they don’t know? Something like that. THE MOST IMPORTANT thing for a bard is determining when and where they would snap. Please keep that in mind. They have unpredictable personalities and are very capricious.

PRINCE OF TIME

This is a powerful and scary guy. The bard is kind of goofy and in your face, but the prince is angry and brooding and cold. The prince’s job is to destroy an aspect that…. Hmm…. It seems like the prince’s aspect is a bit of a nuisance in their sessions. I always wonder how hussie could have carefully planned each and every character to represent their class and aspect in every way correctly. The prince’s aspect is maybe a threat to the successful continuation of the session. I think it’s kind of up to them to not get carried away but to sort of clean up the excess aspect. Dirk sort of nuked everyone’s interest in Jake by proving how shit a boyfriend he is. Which was holding everyone back a bit. Eridan… went way overboard with everything. Dirk could have definitely broken everyone’s spirit and destroyed the souls of all players if he was an antagonist. Like eridan. Eridan’s session was like a bunch of naive teenagers expecting to beat this game like a challenge instead of like a journey. And he got rid of that naive optimism right away. Honestly in feferi alone there was hope for a brighter future like beforus which is definitely less bloodthirsty and colonial. And he nipped that in the bud along with every other positive future aspiration the team had. As far as he could, at least. We don’t have a lot of information about the alpha trolls session, but there is a lot of discord and ill will going on in there. I think there’s also much more disillusionment among the players. Granted they are all dead already so that kind of makes it more obvious that this isn’t going to go well. A prince of time might be a really bad sign for the session. Or it could be everyone is lollygagging around and there’s an excess of time and things are taking forever. The prince could like move through time I assume and maybe skip forward. They could perhaps fast forward the session for everyone? Jade was able to manipulate space to affect everyone. Unlike how Dave mostly affected his own timeline. This fast forwarding thing could really screw up everyone’s day. Maybe even like making people too old and decrepit to work like with osteoporosis and shit. Or skipping to the end of the game. That could be misguided and everyone isn’t ready yet or it could be vengeful and vindictive. They could even maybe age the frog (again, misguided or on purpose) and accidentally kill it or something. The time player is supposed to breed the frog. It is NOT the knights job, karkat just did it bc he’s the leader and since he’s not the time player he caused The Tumor. Anyway. Are you more of a fighter or a wildcard?

#homestuck #classpect #classpecting #bard class #prince class #bard of void #prince of time

[alexchawke]

#bard #bardcore #dnd art #bard oc #bard class #dnd character

[emperor-of-blood]

Do you think you could find a classpect for the immortal snail? Also hi, been a while since your last post, how are you?

Hello! I've been good! Very busy with life. Got my first big kid job after grad school, got a girlfriend, life is going well! Just very busy lol. How're you doing? It's also been a while since I've gotten an ask from you lol.

So. The Immortal Snail. This has got to be about the hypothetical Snail that is immortal, out to get you, and instantly kills you if it touches you, right? I think there's a few different variations of this scenario but they all involve that + some instant reward in exchange for taking on this assassin, right? I feel like I've heard one version that includes the snail periodically teleporting too.

But anyways this is a pretty simple character to analyze, which always makes me lean towards an Heir. Not to say that Heirs can't have nuance of course, but more that if you boiled each class down as much as possible, I think Heir is probably the most intact at that final stage. If that makes any sense. I'd also consider a Bard here, or maybe a Prince.

Light is a pretty obvious aspect here, but I'd also consider Void. Bard of Void is pretty interesting. I think I like that!

So Bard of Void:

One who invites destruction through [Void]/one who lacks [Void]

Popping into existence from nowhere, and as a snail of all things. It brings along with it great wealth, which ties into the absence of Void part. You suddenly live a very wealthy life! How exciting. But then one day, it suddenly ends. No warning. It's just over. Because a snail touched you! You really thought you sealed that jar well but apparently, something happened. Or maybe nothing happened. Nothing you could notice anyways.

#homestuck #classpect analysis #homestuck analysis #classpect #homestuck classpect #the immortal snail #bard #bard class #bard homestuck #homestuck bard #bard of void #void #void aspect #void homestuck #homestuck void #snail

[nekropsii]

what are your interpretations for those classes and aspects, out of curiousity? (or a link to an interpretation thats good)

[Re: This post.]

Okay, that's an incredibly complex, multi-tiered question. I'll try my best to summarize it as briefly as possible, though!!

FOR THE CLASSES:

The fact that Bards are the Wildcard Class is true, and I'm not going to dispute that... But I think the way that some people go about interpreting Bards is a bit weak. Oftentimes, they're made out to be forces of pure, unpredictable chaos, when... That's not the case at all. That has, in my opinion, never been the case. From my observation, the role of a Bard in the greater context of a Session isn't that they create Pure Unpredictability within the field of that Aspect, but rather that they're representative of Instability within the field of their Aspect. Those are two entirely different things. Bards do, in fact, have some greater purpose and reasoning behind their actions- it's just that those reasons might not make sense to someone who is particularly mentally stable- or, "hinged", as some might like to put it. Their status of being rather Unhinged and/or Unstable individuals is why they're known to Make or Break Sessions- especially since I'd argue that their existence may hint towards a general feeling of instability within that Aspect throughout the entire session... They are Passive Classes, after all.

Pages are not "Baby Knights", because that would fundamentally defeat the entire purpose of their journey and existence as a Class. Pages represent Lacking, and their journey revolves around Deficit- both in themselves, and in those around them. When their Deficit in their Aspect is healed or resolved somehow, they are stated to be one of the most powerful Classes from the viewpoint of baseline power. If a Page evolved into a Knight upon their full realization, that's not a victory. That's the start of an entirely new journey as a character with a power level that many, many people were able to start with. That's just a cruel joke, at that point. I have so many choice words for the whole "Pages evolve into Knights" theory that if I enable myself any more space to talk about it here, that's what the entire post will turn into, so I'll forcibly stop myself there.

FOR THE ASPECTS:

Doom is a very complicated Aspect, and it hurts my heart to see people boil it down to Misfortune and Death. That is... Nowhere near the full picture, and it's so saddening that no one ever seems to truly take the effort to dig deeper. It's also about Control, Self-Sacrifice, Restriction, Necessity, and so many other things. It's fascinating!! There's pros to being a Doom player- it's not all bad!! Also... The Doombound do not bring bad luck. Think of them like an Absol, from Pokemon- if one of them starts hanging around you a lot, their presence isn't going to kill you. It can, however, serve as an omen- the Doombound are attracted to those that are already Doomed. Come on.

Hope is not inherently good, nor is it inherently positive. In fact, we have yet to see a single example of a Hope player who is a happy person... Lol. Hope is about Belief, and that's an entirely neutral concept. My personal pet theory as to why Hope was elevated to be this paragon of good in the eyes of the fandom is that it has to do with the western world's relationship with Religion- especially the USA and its relationship with Christianity. That's a topic for another day, though... But anyways, Hope can very much so lead to toxic idealism, an inability to accept reality, and suffering... And quite easily, too! I'd argue it's actually a key part of the Aspect! It's not an inherently wholesome or fun Aspect. No Aspects are. That is how they work.

Rage is not "The Hope Aspect, but Evil", it is representative of Disbelief... Which is, you know, the actual opposite of Belief? I'm not sure why Rage gets so commonly misinterpreted as "The Evil Aspect", nor do I understand why they're so heavily related to Demons. Demons are a construct of Hope, actually, and so are Cults. Sorry! It's also not an inherently bad or negative Aspect- it's just Skepticism, Anger, and Pessimism... Which would sound bad, if you forget the fact that those are necessary parts of life in order to have an even moderately healthy experience with being alive.

I'm going to plug one of my besties here, because I will take literally any excuse to do so, and you kind of asked for it. @scalematez is an absolute scholar on the subject of Hope and Rage as Aspects, and she is the only person I've ever seen actually understand them on a deeper level without defaulting to some of the most common, rather egregious stereotypes regarding those Aspects. Here's an essay of hers about their dichotomy, go give her a follow!

#homestuck #homestuck meta #homestuck analysis #homestuck classpect #classpecting #bard class #page class #doom aspect #hope aspect #rage aspect #bard.pdf #page.pdf #doom.pdf #hope.pdf #rage.pdf #nekro.pdf #nekro.sms

[batrachois]

Bard Frog | DnD Frog series

(available as prints on INPRINT and downloadable as an HD file on Patreon)

#bard #frog #class #dnd #dungeons and drawings #dungeons and dragons #bard class #art #patreon

[tallandartsy]

La’Fayette the Whiskered Bard

I was tired of doing regular ol’ pet commissions. So I’ve started a series of DnD based animals. I made Lafayette for a secret santa exchange in 2023. But now I’ve got plans to make more characters and start a one off series.

Of course if people want to commission a custom for their pets I’m open to ALL species.

#cats #dnd #bard class #sculpture #art #dnd character #pets #ooak

[whetstonefires]

Okay so, Chris Pine's character in the Dungeons & Dragons movie. Edgar or Edwin or. Something starting with Ed. Oh it's Edgin lol no wonder I couldn't parse it.

Anyway, is there any consensus on whether he's 1) really really bad at being a bard 2) in a modded setting where bard isn't a casting class 3) some NPC Commoner with high CHA who's taken a bard slot in a party on the strength of his braining?

#hoc est meum #dungeons and dragons honor among thieves #dnd movie #bard class #he's supposed to have 2 cantrips and 2 1st level spells from character creation as a bard #and he's clearly had plenty of chance to get XP #he's not a bard? he just plays the lute? he's just a guy???? #i think he's just a guy

[raspberry-arev]

Ingeborg's D&D party (comparison btw cleaned-up lineart and the final render) :-)

I know my DnD art doesn't get any notes but maybe I don't care and I just draw what I like. Maybe nature is healing!

#dungeons and dragons #dnd party #dnd #dnd character #dwarf #dragonborn #dark elf #ranger class #wizard class #bard class #my art