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| Solian11-29-06, 10:57 AM | I'm having some trouble choosing an instrument for my bard, so i thaught i'd post up this thread. I'll start with some of the usual ones: 1.Lute 2.Mandolin 3.Harp 4.singing Remember to number yours. |
| Dei11-29-06, 11:05 AM | 5. Stand-up (I'm not kidding, we had a gnome who inspired us with knock-knock jokes and reference's to the dubious nature of enemy parentage) 6. Bongos 7. Flute 8. Trumpet (Great for bards who take part in large battles as practically the entire battlefield will be able to hear you and therefore be effected) 9. Kettle Drum (Again, very large aoe) 10. Cutlery (Again, no lie, think about someone playing the spoons furiously in the middle of combat and tell me it doesn't appeal to you) 11. The kazoo (Yes... the gnome bard was odd... very odd) |
| Solian11-29-06, 11:09 AM | 5. Stand-up (I'm not kidding, we had a gnome who inspired us with knock-knock jokes and reference's to the dubious nature of enemy parentage) 6. Bongos 7. Flute 8. Trumpet (Great for bards who take part in large battles as practically the entire battlefield will be able to hear you and therefore be effected) 9. Kettle Drum (Again, very large aoe) 10. Cutlery (Again, no lie, think about someone playing the spoons furiously in the middle of combat and tell me it doesn't appeal to you) 11. The kazoo (Yes... the gnome bard was odd... very odd) my god, what instrument did this Gnome bard NOT play!? |
| Kitaki11-29-06, 11:17 AM | 12. Bagpipes (you want distance on an instrument?) 13. Steel Drums (Rasta Bard!) 14. Banjo 15. Violin/Fiddle (same thing, just the way you play it) |
| Dei11-29-06, 11:26 AM | my god, what instrument did this Gnome bard NOT play!? Well he only actually had comedy and wind(kazoo) perform skills, the rest are just off the top of my head. 16. Piano (ensure you've got a method of transport handy) 17. Bodily functions (or would that count as perform(wind)) 18. Guitar 19. Military drum (the kind they use on military parades, slung in front of the hips) 20. harp |
| wordserpent11-29-06, 11:50 AM | 21. Diggery-doo [sp] 22. Three-stringed fiddle 23. Jaw's harp 24. Squeeze-box accordion 25. Balalaika 26. Lyre 27. Pan-pipes 28. Sound-imitation (like the guy from the Polce Academy movies) |
| Kitaki11-29-06, 12:04 PM | 16. Piano (ensure you've got a method of transport handy) I can see it now, the bard in the back of a wagon playing his piano as the party travels from town to town, I like it. |
| Far_Traveler11-29-06, 01:03 PM | 29: pipe organ (vampire BBEG) 30: Church bell (same) 31: Chello (you see the pattern?) 32: Poetry (seriously) 33: Haiku |
| Mogarth_Warheart11-29-06, 01:20 PM | 34. Nose whistling |
| Kit_the_Odd11-29-06, 01:36 PM | 35) half-orc Bardbarian that plays drums made of the skulls of dead enemies, with light maces for drum sticks. |
| Rafe_11311-29-06, 01:51 PM | 36. Dulcimer 37. Skin flute....hehe make a fort save to resist premature explosions....sorry 38. harpsicord....kinda big, but someone said piano, so.. |
| BloodDragon11-29-06, 02:09 PM | 39. Tap shoes. 40. Orcastra (Sp... An entire band) 39- Doesn't work so well in woodland area's... I've trying... bring a wood mat. 40- Kenkou's can immatate all sounds. In the Dragon magzine covering them it stated a single Kenkou could immatate the sound of a hunderd people screening and suffering (for torture) so... Lets do something construtive with that voice! |
| stargate52511-29-06, 05:54 PM | to 40, what does singing oh fortuna do? 41. Perform (sports announcer) [I've done it] 42. Perform (riverdance) 43. Perform (oratory) [often overlooked, and it's not easy to suspect the old guy who was just telling about the time his uncle fell in a hole.] 44. Perform (armor drums) [I got the Dm to allow me to perform to the sounds my quarterstaff made on enemies armor.] 45. Perform (one man band) [done this too] |
| Alcari Ambaron11-29-06, 06:20 PM | 46 - Swords 47 - nunchaku 48 - 3 bows tied together to make a very small harp. 49 - ones theighs 50 - helmets 51 - semi empty potion vials |
| stargate52511-29-06, 06:23 PM | 52. Perform(improvised) [think those guys who play off old gas cans and trashcan lids and pipes and stuff.] |
| Man in the Funny Hat11-30-06, 02:19 AM | 53. Triangle 54. Castinets 55. Harmonica 56. Theremin :) 57. Moog synthesizer :) 58. Calliope 59. Alpenhorn 60. Washboard 61. Hollow Log 62. Xylophone 63. Grass-blade 64. Zither 64. Autoharp 65. Waterglass 66. Jug 67. Glockenspiel 68. Whistle 69. Slide whistle 70. Yodeling 71. Player Piano 72. Gong 73. Rams Horn 74. Conch Shell 75. Spoons |
| Caliborn11-30-06, 02:49 AM | Peform(Synthesizer) It was actually an Ioun Stone that allowed you to use Ghost Sound at will. |
| Cyan Wisp11-30-06, 04:26 AM | 76. Wobble board (think Rolf Harris) and some Perform (body) ones if strapped for equipment... 77. Flicking your cheeks or under your jaw with your mouth open 78. Hand hooting (you know, cupping hands together and blowing into them - you can get a fair range of notes!) :cool: 79. Scratching dry skin to a rhythm 80. Burping to tune 81. Rib bone xylophone 82. Loose joint popping/spine or finger clicking 83. Beer belly slapping 84. Post-sneeze operatics 85. Hollow-head drumming |
| Pippa11-30-06, 05:25 PM | What - nobody said the singing saw? -86. Singing Saw -87. perform (storytelling) -88. portable organ -89. glaves -90. amplified mandoline (magical, of course) -91. cats (they're quite cheap) |
| Regular_K11-30-06, 05:34 PM | 92. Beat boxing 93. Speed Snapping 94. Glass Rubbing (Fill crystals glasses and then ring your finger around) 95. Animal Calls |
| Kitaki11-30-06, 06:25 PM | -90. amplified mandoline (magical, of course) I've done this before, play Of Wolf and Man by Metallica, then having the bard turn into a werewolf, scares the pants off of the PCs when they see the little wierd bard turn into a killing machine. |
| The_Third_Karsus11-30-06, 09:53 PM | Personally, one of my bard characters is named Lydia so she sings the song Lydia the tattoed lady. 91. Here's something you don't see everyday. A Kai-achum. (That's spelt wrong) It's the traditional instrument of Korea. It has a very pure and sweet sound it is a stringed instrument and can be carried. |
| SunTzuWarmaster11-30-06, 10:38 PM | 96. Harmonica (For the Win!) 97. Guitar 98. Pipes (blue man group anyone?) 99. French Horn 100. Trumpet 101. OCARINA! |
| Ashok_Lal11-30-06, 10:40 PM | 96. one on one (bedroom performance. My bard spy took this & its *** in very handy) 97. Dancing ( i dont think anyone said that) |
| Lord Karsus12-01-06, 01:41 AM | Stormtrooper Helmets. Eh, depends on the RPG setting...:D |
| Harem_Trained12-01-06, 02:26 AM | 98. perform (smack-talking): Had a crime lord beholder bard who inspired allies by "talkin' junk" to the PCs. 99. Perform (clapping): it reminds me of first grade music class |
| SageBahamut12-01-06, 03:36 AM | 100: Hurdy-gurdy! Fun to play, fun to hear, and fun to say! Hurdy-Gurdy! 101 (woo! I get 101): Yodelling! |
| Herald@Large12-01-06, 05:44 PM | 17. Bodily functions (or would that count as perform(wind) Back in the golden days of vaudeville, there was a French performer who could break wind on key. I am NOT joking!:uh-huh: |
| Chrono Nexus12-01-06, 05:52 PM | 91. Here's something you don't see everyday. A Kai-achum. (That's spelt wrong) It's the traditional instrument of Korea. It has a very pure and sweet sound it is a stringed instrument and can be carried. My friend has one of those. I see it everyday.:D |
| The_Third_Karsus12-01-06, 09:36 PM | My friend has one of those. I see it everyday.:D Thats crazy! Is your friend from Korea or are they of Korean ancestry? I love them by the way. I am being taught how to play it but it hurts your fingers after you pluck for to long. :D |
| Chrono Nexus12-01-06, 09:58 PM | Thats crazy! Is your friend from Korea or are they of Korean ancestry? I love them by the way. I am being taught how to play it but it hurts your fingers after you pluck for to long. :D Korean descent (2nd generation american). It was his fathers.. he doesn't really play it, he occasionally takes it down to strike the cords sometimes though. It does sound nice though, you are right. |
| MindLich12-02-06, 02:37 PM | 29: pipe organ (vampire BBEG) That is sooooooooo cool. |
| platinum_mongoose12-02-06, 09:13 PM | Not sure how far after 101 this thread can go, but I'm willing to give it a boost. 102 (or whatever)- Mice. Like that Monty Python sketch. Each mouse is trained to emit a specific-pitched squeak when struck with a mallet. 103- Limerics. "There once was a man from Halruaa..." 104- Koblods. See 102. 105- Gong. May be hard to carry around a dungeon, but it provides 3/4's cover to half the party. |
| evilgenius12-02-06, 09:19 PM | Two magically animated rotating Tenser's floating disks (reduced in size to 12 inches diameter), with a waxy substance disk placed on each one, and a needle running along an etched groove within each, both with wires running to a box that acoustically amplifies (like a guitar body) the signal of one or the other, the control of which is a horizontal slider on the top of said box. |
| 12Shark12-02-06, 11:35 PM | Exemplar, Perform(Singing), Perform(Dance), Profession(Choreographer) and Leadership. A troupe of performers to do a musical in the middle of the battle, boosted by your exemplar abilities. My, won't it be ironic when your troupe of follower bards do Oliver Twist's "You've got to pick a pocket or two" to boost the Rogue's sleight of hand checks. |
| DrMorganes12-02-06, 11:52 PM | My, won't it be ironic when your troupe of follower bards do Oliver Twist's "You've got to pick a pocket or two" to boost the Rogue's sleight of hand checks. Not in the slightest. Definition of irony (http://www.webster.com/dictionary/irony). |
| Ruslanchik12-03-06, 02:05 PM | 106. Drum machine--either a complicated mechanical box that allows you to press buttons that sound actual drums inside and uses gears to "save" the patterns. Or a magical box that stores and recreates "samples." |
| Far_Traveler12-03-06, 10:52 PM | That is sooooooooo cool. I know :D He even had a magic artifact-level puzzle box as his coffin (they themselves released him) and an instant-pipe organ item. |
| 12Shark12-04-06, 01:04 AM | Wait, snap. It could be ironic to the crowd I guess. |
| Erugoth12-05-06, 04:09 AM | Not gonna number these since there have been a few repeats and it looks like the numbers fell at one point but.... - Euphonium (talk about exotic instruments, everybody go wiki euphonium now!) - Tuba (imagine carrying a tuba in a bag on your back as you fight bad guys) - Reed Flute (you know, get a piece of grass and blow!) - Spoons was a great idea - Bell Tree/Mark Tree - Timpani - did somebody say dulcimer? - Contrabassoon, actually anything with contra or bass in it (Contrabassflute, Contrabass ((the stringed one)), bass trumpet) - Mellophone - Glockenspiel - Soprano Sax (any sax) - Bagpipes - Oboe (but only used for bard abilities on enemies) oh yea, and hide weapons in your instrument too, like a lute with an axe blade that juts out of the bottom or something hint - take craft "musical instrument" and craft "weaponry of some sort" :D :D :D |
| UndeadMouse12-05-06, 08:46 PM | - Oboe (but only used for bard abilities on enemies) Hey! I play that! clarinet!!! English Horn!! Duduk (remember the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe?) flute piccolo symphonic screams (honestly, i once found an organ with that sound on it. it was really cool because i made everyone jump ;)) hand farts |
| InterSilva12-06-06, 02:42 AM | 127. Koto (Japanese instrument) 128. Sitar (Indian) 129. Tabla drums (Indian) 130. The Stick http://www.stick.com/method/ http://www.stick.com/instruments/ I want one so badly. One of the guys in King Crimson plays one. He also plays 131. Touch Guitar http://www.bunker-guitars.com/touch.html |