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Message ID: 1834
Date: Fri Jun 11 23:27:27 BST 1999
Author: Blitz Krieg
Subject: Re: Petition and general opinions
>From: "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...>I'm not sure where you draw this line.... Please define it a little more so
>
>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 anya
>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
>bazooka too. Whether bards can ultimately wear plate or not at some pointthat
>is moot to me, I won't 'cause it doesn't fit my image of a bard. to me
>image is more important than being as effective as possible. I kinda wishmagical
>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,
>instruments, any of these would be great! Most of the other classes seemto
>have items tailored towards them with the exception of bards. Oh yeah sureBard's are Jack of All trades - Borrowing from many different classes.
>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.I am wholeheartedly against Bind for Bards. No other Hybrid gets this.
>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.