#d&d 5e bard

[jollycryptid]

Gotta love a girlie who can turn into a large category werewolf 🐺✨

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[nutnoce]

The Byrd Bard

A musician with a secret talent for the banjo..unfortunately he'd rather be known for his skill at French Horn. Which is why he left his job and maxed out his credit to get one. Will it be worth it?! All he has to do is learn it!

#byrd bard #dnd owlin #owlin #dnd #dnd commission #for myself lol #he's got terrible bard stats and i tried to build him like a thief/intellectual so we'll see #d&d 5e #dnd art #dnd oc #art of mine #artist on tumblr

[cervinayyy]

Are you new to D&D? Think caster classes are complicated and hard to learn? Do you want to understand how each caster class works in one easy analogy? Then this is for you!

Let's think of casting spells as cooking. When cooking (casting spells) you need to:

1. Have a way to learn the recipe. (Known Spells)

2. Prepare the recipe. (Prepared Spells)

3. Eat the recipe. (Spell Slots)

The way each caster class does spells is different, but they can be categorized into 3 separate groups:

Prepared Casters, Spontaneous Casters, and Wizards.

With this in mind, we can categorize them by how each class learns their recipes (known spells) as well as how they get ready to make them (prepared spells).

Prepared Casters: These casters have access to any recipe they could ever need. Think of it like having access to Google, or Pinterest (known spells). If they want a recipe, they just spend their morning finding what they want, grocery shopping and getting it ready (prepared spells). They can make any food you give them a recipe for.

Spontaneous Casters: These casters don't have internet. They do, however, have a few recipe books (known spells). They have few really good recipes that they like, and have basically memorized these recipes. They always have the ingredients to make their favourite things (prepared spells).

Wizards: A grouping of their own, they are somewhat a combination of the two. Wizards do not use Google or Pinterest, they're better than that. Any recipe they like, they compile into a recipe blog (known spells). Their recipe blog is pretty full, any time they find a new recipe that they like they can add it to their blog, though adding new recipes can sometimes be costly (they need materials to copy down the recipe). That said, like prepared casters, they do their grocery shopping in the morning, when they'd decide what recipes they're going to make that day (prepared spells).

The next section is spell slots. If you make the food, you have to eat it too, right? Spell slots are basically how much a given caster can eat.

All full casters (Druids, Bards, Clerics, Wizards, Sorcerers) have the capacity to eat a decent amount of food.

Half casters (Paladins, Rangers), can only eat a portion of the food that they make.

Warlocks are weird, the food they make is always top notch, but they can't eat very much of it (they cast their spells at the highest level they can and don't have many spell slots). That said, their metabolism is beefy as hell and after a few hours of rest they can eat again.

I'll probably add a section to this later to explain regaining spell slots. If anyone has any additions they wanna make, please go for it!

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #d&d #dnd 5e #d&d 5e #d&d character #dnd spells #dnd casters #caster classes #dnd classes #d&d classes #d&d spells #druid #dnd druid #warlock #wizard #sorcerer #bard #paladin #ranger #cleric #dnd cleric #dnd wizard #5e #faun rants

[jackzarts]

Caught?! 🤨

Some chibi Quinn (drow/tiefling wizard) and Cal (tiefling bard) I drew a bit ago 💕 Cal belongs to my bestie @kered555

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[terrafey]

scenes that’ll never happen since our paladin died before i finished this, but i’m still too proud of it to not post. click for higher resolution.

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[pastadorable]

For some, there’s a deep longing for freedom…🌤️🌊

(DnD character for a One Piece themed campaign!)

#kaley draws #one piece #one piece oc #dnd character #dnd charcter art #dnd bard #dnd art #dnd #dnd5e #d&d bard #dnd oc #d&d #d&d character #d&d 5e #d&d art #d&d oc #d&d campaign #dnd campaign #character art #dungeons and dragons #D&D triton #dnd triton #one piece fishmen #one piece fishman island #digital art #digital drawing #stained glass #stained glass art

[lin-squiggly]

OKAY! SO!

This guy! Edgin the Bard! Chris pines character from that movie we all liked who melted that one time! I have been given a relation!

He... isn't a bard?

Like.. he's not, his 5e rules say he is and so does the film, but what he is just doesn't line up with that moniker.

Bards are studious magic users, people who explore the world to discover the secret magics of the arts and nature, while Edgin is more akin to a sharp witted and deceptive individual, able to wile his way in and out of any situation.

What he is, is a rouge with the performer archetype. More specifically he is a spy subclass rouge pretending to be a bard.

..Let me explain.

Formerly a member of the Harpers, Edgin's role in said organization was primarily one of espionage for the greater good, the preservation of lore and history, and the faulting of evil in the realm where he found it. What better way to get into a position of use to investigate and spy than a bard, a humble scholar only seeking to learn and entertain.

When asked to perform magic? A simple lie about his magic being invisible, a feeling over a spectacle, while also stating his magic is only for nonviolent means, would allow him to use his wit and charisma to simulate the effects of charm person or friends, enough to pass as an eloquent and capable pacifist magician musician. A perfect cover to disguise his true intentions.

Following his abandonment of the Harpers, he kept up the con for his own gain, letting him slip in and heist wherever he desired with his crew, posing as a simple but charming traveling scholar without a violent bone in his body.

So.. yeah, spy (or maybe mastermind) subclass rouge pretending to be a bard is what I think.

Or maybe just a really shit bard, either way!

#dnd #edgin darvis #bard #rogue #dungeons and dragons #honor among thieves #dungeons and dragons honor among thieves #dnd movie #d&d #dnd 5e

[theoutcastrogue]

This is petty but that's never stopped me.

In the Vox Machina campaign, Scanlan Shorthalt's resounding success in matters of tactics [this post isn't about roleplaying] was partly due to Sam Riegel's skill, and mostly due to the fact that 5e Bards are just that good. However! The "gnome bard" combo was famously chosen by Liam, after Sam, who'd never played d&d before, asked what's the silliest, least powerful and least badass thing he could play. That was his character concept. And at the time, Liam was not wrong to answer "bard". In 3rd Edition/Pathfinder, Bards DID suck, at least out of the box. You could build a strong Bard in Pathfinder, but you had to optimise to high heavens with carefully selected feats and spells and items from various sources. It didn't just happen spontaneously, and it was still nowhere near the raw power and versatility of a Wizard or Druid. Bards played support.

So at lvl 9, they started streaming and switched from Pathfinder to D&D 5e. Scanlan got an ENORMOUS power boost at that point, but Sam was still harbouring under the impression that his chosen class is not powerful or badass at all. And as they kept playing and he kept killing it (he was brilliant at it, no doubt about that!), he presumed that he was killing it with one hand tied behind his back, because he was just a silly little gnome bard. And, he emphatically wasn't silly. He was a whole-ass full caster, top tier class right there.

Pathfinder Bards are half-casters. If they hadn't switched to 5e, Scanlan wouldn't have access to 7th and higher level spells: no Mordenkeinen's Magnificent Mansion (a signature spell), no Dominate Monster (this is how he made the goristro fight Vorugal), no Reverse Gravity (big moment in the first Ripley fight), and no Wish (kind of a big deal!). Other spells aren't in the Bard list, and there's no Magical Secrets in Pathfinder: he wouldn't have access to Bigby's Hand (another signature spell), Otiluke's Resilient Sphere (how he got rid of the efrit, and Ripley), Lightning Bolt and Stinking Cloud (his standard damage spells), Polymorph (that's several giant eagles including the "now smarter" Grog (this will never stop being funny), and of course the legendary triceratops), or Counterspell (kind of an enormous deal). And all the other spells would have come later: no Seeming at lvl 11 = no cows. (What a loss! No cows!)

And it's not just access to spells, it's also "likelihood of spells to work", which depends on the DC, which in Pathfinder depended on spell level. Lower level spells had a lower chance of doing anything, by virtue of being easier to resist. And half-casters got a slower spell progression, and ended up with significantly less power overall. Whereas in 5e spell level is irrelevant, spell DCs depend on your character level, and that's that. Even (Bardic) Inspiration got a boost from the switch. All in all, we're talking about a spectacular upgrade.

So a tragic misconception happened: Sam got it into his head that he's so good at d&d that he can gimp himself and still kick ass. Well, he can't.

When he played a Rogue (no big spells, huh? no cheat sheet!) he sucked at it and he hated it. And now that he plays a Cleric and actually, actively gimps himself (he said in a 4-Sided Dive that he deliberately avoids cleric spells that others have used before in CR, which by now is most of them, and certainly the best of them), he very predictably sucks at it too (I mean relatively speaking; it's still a full caster), and he doesn't love it. The one time he was BRILLIANT was when he had a top tier class to work with, and used it to its full potential. But he thought he was gimping himself, because he was thinking of a different game/edition than the one he was playing!

I wanna grab him by the shoulders and shake him up and say my good man, you gotta stop this "I gimp myself" -> "I fail to kick ass" -> *surprised pikachu face*. CHOOSE. Either gimp yourself and accept you won't be kicking any ass, but it's okay because you enjoy roleplaying someone like that more than you enjoy kicking ass, OR stop gimping yourself and kick ass, because you do enjoy kicking ass, don't you?

Both are great! I approve either way! But choose.

I also wanna grab Liam by the shoulders and tell him "Wizard or Sorcerer! For the love of all that's green and good in this world, next time Sam asks you what class to play in D&D, tell 'im Wizard or Sorcerer!". But then I remember that next time they'll probably play Daggerheart and not D&D unless WotC makes them an offer they can't refuse, so the whole thing is moot.

#scanlan shorthalt #critical role #how to rogue #d&d #5e #3.5 #pathfinder #crunch #bard #trs #sam riegel

[brewerssupplies]

Let's fucking rock!

Here's a cantrip for bard, cleric, and warlock. Hope you enjoy!

#dungeons and dragons #dnd #d&d #dungeons & dragons #5e #homebrew #cantrip #metal music #bard #cleric #warlock #spell #spellcasting

[cocoshomebrew]

Here's the link to my patreon if you want to see more of my content or want to support me in making it. Also consider joining my discord!

#dnd #homebrew #5e #d&d #cocoshomebrew #dungeons & dragons #subclass #bard #cooking #cook #chef #food

[xonndnd]

Nina - Tiefling Bard

#dungeons and dragons #dnd character #dnd oc #dnd art #dnd #d&d art #d&d character #d&d oc #d&d 5e #d&d #tiefling #bard

[jollycryptid]

So I made an evil cult leader bard & have been drawing her a lot lately <3

#jolly's art #dungeons and dragons #dnd #dnd 5e #d&d #bard #sketch #digital art #illustration #drawing #art #tiefling #werewolf #wolf #ttrpg #fantasy #artists on tumblr #oc #she is a spoiled brat who gets everything she wants and has the biggest god complex known to man and beyond #she researches eldritch knowledge and manipulates people to do her bidding. deadass full on has a cult of her own to boost her ego :) #she reached lvl 9 recently and contracted lycanthropy during the sessions

[l4wlii]

A doodle dump of my girlie Zotari

#might need to click for better quality #dungeons and dragons #d&d 5th edition #d&d 5e #d&d art #dnd bard #dnd character #digital art #digital sketch #manga art #artists on tumblr #character art #character design #digital painting #monster girl #dnd satyr #japanese inspired #shamisen

[nameless-is-nameless]

DnD but make it Art Nouveau!

We just finished an incredible story arc in our campaign, and I had to do some art about it! Here’s @pianissimoe ‘s Masvari, who was granted divine powers to save the world, and @wethekeegsta ‘s vampire Irroné who we save the world from (eventually).

#I’m so pleased with how these came out everyone look #dnd #dnd oc #art #original art #artists on tumblr #csp #art nouveau #tiefling #bard #vampire #vecna #Masvari #the bad omens #dnd 5e #dnd pc #D&D

[jackzarts]

Still experimenting a bit with the lineless art. Here’s my second Art Fight attack (revenge) for @nyrafernvale !! This is their tiefling bard Leona, and I loved her design ✨💕✨

#art fight 2023 #art fight #dnd 5e #tiefling #tiefling art #dnd tiefling #d&d #dungeons and dragons #dnd oc #dnd art #lineless #my art #illustration #dnd character #dnd #bard #dnd bard #jackz attacks #ttrpg community

[vivimortuos]

Another Cybele doodle binge

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