Why no famous Bards??

[Grand-Ranger]

In AD&D books there is no Bards!?!

There is a Bloody ton of wizards

Plenty of fighters

Quite a number of Clerics

A few Theifs

No Bards!?! I want a famous Bard damn it!

Bah..

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[Lord of Alcohol]

Grand-Ranger its not the Realms but if you can find it The Harp and the Blabe by John Myers Myers (yes two Myers for some reason) is a bardic-type book. I'm sure out of print but try online used booksellers. It is what your looking for...

[Lioness]

In "The Mists of Avalon" which I'm currently reading, Merlin is described as a bard. Just came to mind.

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[Tancred]

What about Storm Silverhand? She's known as the Bard of Shadowdale.

[dominions]

I think that writers don't write about bards due to them being a bit half-arsed in the skill department. The can do a little bit of magic, a little bit of sword play, a little bit of thieving, but they're no where near as good as the classes these skills are taken from.
IMHO anyway

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[Tancred]

Originally posted by dominions: I think that writers don't write about bards due to them being a bit half-arsed in the skill department. The can do a little bit of magic, a little bit of sword play, a little bit of thieving, but they're no where near as good as the classes these skills are taken from. IMHO anyway

OR (he says snidely) Bards are a little harder to stereotype, and so most writers avoid them as too difficult to write.

[dominions]

OR (he says snidely) Bards are a little harder to stereotype, and so most writers avoid them as too difficult to write.

Could be

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Read the Forgotten Realms book "Elf Shadow" and "Eld Song". Both have lots of Bard characters in them.. Dan is one..

Both of those books are part of the Harpers Sets..

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[MILAMBER]

Originally posted by Tancred: What about Storm Silverhand? She's known as the Bard of Shadowdale.

I was just going to mention her.

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[Sneeki Two]

Wasn't there a book called Finder's Stone (TSR/Forgottem Realms) that featured a famous bard (His name was Finder something)? I mentioned the Gord the Rogue Series (out of print by Gary Gygax) a while back. He featured a human bard by the name of Gellor (he was pretty tough). He was what bards used to be in 1rst edition Ad&d (8Fighter/9thief then you began lessons as a druid but were considered a bard as you progressed using the bard xp tables).

You might also want to try reading Rhapsody by Elizabeth Haydon. Her main character is a bardlike persona (called Namers in her world). There are three books in the series, and so far the first seems to be decent.