D&D (2024) What is the 2024 Bard Power Source?

What is the 2024 Bard Power Source?

  • Arcane

    Votes: 9 22.5%
  • Divine

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Primal

    Votes: 2 5.0%
  • Your Choice of Power Source

    Votes: 10 25.0%
  • A mix of Arcane, Divine, and Primal

    Votes: 14 35.0%
  • Psionics (okay just here for mischief)

    Votes: 5 12.5%


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Yaarel

🇮🇱He-Mage
The magic of the Bard is shamanic, the magic of the "soul", hence is Psionic.

That said, the D&D Bard also connotes the D&D Druid, whence Primal. The main difference is Bard has mind magic where Druid has elemental magic. But both have life, plants, and animals.

Because Merlin connotes "wizard", thus Arcane. To be fair, potions are also part of the mythic origins of the Celtic bard.

The D&D Bard is often a musician, whence magic via the "songs of creation" where the Material Plane ultimate emanates from the Astral Plane. Hence Divine.
 



RoughCoronet0

Dragon Lover
The bard’s power source is the “Language or Song of Creation” where the gods and other mythical beings created the world through their voice, willing things into being with it. It’s old magic.
 

OB1

Jedi Master
"Old magic" is Psionic, the magic of a soul.
I'm down with equating Old magic with Psionic, but would argue that Psionic magic is the magic of our world leaking thru the Far Realms into the D&D Multiverse. After all, D&D was created by words from our world. It's the magic of our imagination.
 

Scribe

Legend
I think they "cheat" - they use words of power that access the Weave (or whatever represents the fundamental forces of magic) to create magical effects that cross-over the (purely conceptual) divide between "power sources".

I look at it as

Bard - Secrets that not everyone can access, learn, understand.
Warlock - Its not their power anyway, stolen.
 

Yaarel

🇮🇱He-Mage
I'm down with equating Old magic with Psionic, but would argue that Psionic magic is the magic of our world leaking thru the Far Realms into the D&D Multiverse. After all, D&D was created by words from our world. It's the magic of our imagination.

Psionic is the power of a soul. Consciousness itself is a mysterious mystical property that entangles all that exist.

Compare reallife weird stuff like Observer Effect and Quantum Entanglement.
 

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