My absurd bard that every player loved. (Not a perv bard) /u/danu88 DnD: Roll for Initiative!

I was thinking back on this and thought it would be a story that some of you would enjoy.

Long ago when I was first getting into DnD I was playing my first session. Everyone at the table was also a first-timer except the DM. Due to everyone being new most people went with some sort of fighter with the exception of one warlock. I thought bard would be interesting since I used to play a couple instruments and wanted to see where it could go.

I had been playing Majoras Mask around that time and wanted to incorporate the mask aspect to some degree. Over a few sessions I leveled up and acquired some stat boosting items and leaned into wisdom specialties a bit (specifically for animal handling, medicine) to combine with the bards natural performance bonus.

I argued (and this was loosely agreed upon until everyone ended up loving it) that taxidermy was an “art” for me, and therefore I could use my performance specialties when performing this. I then dog piled on my knowledge of medicine and animal handling (specifically animal processing) to create “unique taxidermied items.

This eventually devolved into me making masks out of the faces of either particularly noteworthy enemies we faced, of those of us that were lost along the way as “memorabilia”.

I then handed out these masks to the players that wanted them, or to the person who dealt the killing blow to a particularly powerful enemy. My use of inspiration dice for the players then became encouraging them to use the power of the mask they were wearing to give them little bonuses which the DM then flavored up when a player would score a critical success while using said inspiration.

We eventually became an assassin like group using the faces of others to either commit crimes or keep others off our tail.

There’s a lot more to this and I would be happy to answer any questions or delve a little further!

I was thinking back on this and thought it would be a story that some of you would enjoy.

Long ago when I was first getting into DnD I was playing my first session. Everyone at the table was also a first-timer except the DM. Due to everyone being new most people went with some sort of fighter with the exception of one warlock. I thought bard would be interesting since I used to play a couple instruments and wanted to see where it could go.

I had been playing Majoras Mask around that time and wanted to incorporate the mask aspect to some degree. Over a few sessions I leveled up and acquired some stat boosting items and leaned into wisdom specialties a bit (specifically for animal handling, medicine) to combine with the bards natural performance bonus.

I argued (and this was loosely agreed upon until everyone ended up loving it) that taxidermy was an “art” for me, and therefore I could use my performance specialties when performing this. I then dog piled on my knowledge of medicine and animal handling (specifically animal processing) to create “unique taxidermied items.

This eventually devolved into me making masks out of the faces of either particularly noteworthy enemies we faced, of those of us that were lost along the way as “memorabilia”.

I then handed out these masks to the players that wanted them, or to the person who dealt the killing blow to a particularly powerful enemy. My use of inspiration dice for the players then became encouraging them to use the power of the mask they were wearing to give them little bonuses which the DM then flavored up when a player would score a critical success while using said inspiration.

We eventually became an assassin like group using the faces of others to either commit crimes or keep others off our tail.

There’s a lot more to this and I would be happy to answer any questions or delve a little further!