Well, this debate has certainly heated things up. Its clear there is an
easily definable line between the roleplayers and the powergamers here.

I don't like the idea of bards wearing plate personally, it doesn't fit any
image of the class from a roleplaying perspective as far as I can see, and
while sure its nice to be able to absorb more damage, it'd be nice to have a
bazooka too. Whether bards can ultimately wear plate or not at some point
is moot to me, I won't 'cause it doesn't fit my image of a bard. to me that
image is more important than being as effective as possible. I kinda wish
they'd institute something similar to the monk's increased AC when wearing
light armor for bards as an option, not necessarily better than plate or
even equal, just better than nothing. If not, oh well.

I like the idea of having some bard specific items. Singing swords, magical
instruments, any of these would be great! Most of the other classes seem to
have items tailored towards them with the exception of bards. Oh yeah sure
we can use some warrior's castoff magic weapon, but so can a monk, and just
like a monk, why would we? It'd sure be nice to see something that bard's
could make better use of than anyone else.

On most of the other issues I'm pretty close to neutral except for binding.
The way I see a bard, and certainly the way Verant seems to portray them,
they should travel more than any other character. To have to do this
without being able to bind is difficult, and one would think a travelling
minstrel could bind himself anywhere.

Kitasi
The mournful bard of Faydwer on E'ci
"and no one shall work for money,
and no one shall work for fame"
"but each for the joy of the working,
and each to his seperate star..."