I bought the game a few days after my friend did. We were at his house doing a /who all <class> for each of the classes, and I saw that Bards and Rogues had the fewest. Being a contrarian, I figured it would be cool to play one of the uncommon classes, and I'd always been a Rogue/Thief in FTF gaming, so I figured I'd try something a little different. My Bard is my first character.

Kenross Cantoforjado, 55 songs, Innoruuk

Khelan wrote:

> I've always wondered why other Bards started playing the Bardic class. When I first learned of the game, a friend mentioned that Bards could always find their corpses (and the zones were huge when I first saw the game), and could run faster then others...that got me to start playing the Bard, and I've been hooked ever since. (It also helped that the Bard class is so flexible once you learn it...that's a huge bonus.)
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> So, why did you start playing a Bard?
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> --Khelan, crying over his loss of speed
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