Feb 13, 2006 16:05
Woot! I made a new icon! I hope ya'll like it. The guy (yes, it's a guy) featured in the icon is Bisaiden Westseeker, my character from our D&D Campain. I play with Jenna and Josh (Josh DM's) and it's a total blast! Anyways, Bisaiden is a Bard with a really high charisma, who also happens to be a flaming homosexual. I have a whole lot of fun with him, prancing around and fanning the flames of his faggotry; but since he's got such great people skills, the general public adores him.
For any of you who don't know, in Dungeons and Dragons a Bard is a character class that can do some pretty nifty stuff. Their main thing is people skills. Most Bards are increadibly good with people and diplomacy, being able to lie out their asses as well as sense someone else's motive. They specialize in performing ablities, like Storytelling or a musical instrument. Their perform ability, amoung other things, allows them to do Bard Song, an action that can be manipulated into producing various results (like ridding someone of a spell's effects, or inspiring confidence or heroics). Bards also have their own set of magic spells! It's a combination of spells from both the arcane ("black") and divine ("white") magic lists, but it only goes up to level 6, where as a wizard's magic goes up to level 9. Bards use their vocal skills to cast the spells, so silence is earth shattering. But mainly, a Bard has sex appeal. Your attractiveness in D&D is based on your Charisma score. An average score is 10-11, so when you consider that a low level Bard will have a score somewhere around 16-18 (mine is 18) you realize that these Bards are some sexy mo-fo's. Makes it easy to score with the ladies (or in my case, the gents).
So in short, Bards are the shit. End of story.