Hello! Ive already mentioned bringing bard masteries to the shard, and Kane informed me that it was in the works, but I was also wondering if there might be a way to make a quivver that had the appearance of a Lute? Possibly an arty that added to music skills of some sort. Just a thought 

Hello! Ive already mentioned bringing bard masteries to the shard, and Kane informed me that it was in the works, but I was also wondering if there might be a way to make a quivver that had the appearance of a Lute? Possibly an arty that added to music skills of some sort. Just a thought 

I thought Tome of Nature used the Animal Lore and Animal Taming skills?


Looking at the wiki, it lists Bard, Ranger, and Thief spells.  So it was probably listed for once it is completed, it's there.  It would definitely add some more variety into the game with these spells added in. 
I am looking forward to them as well.


As far as changing the appearance of an item, you can have that done by Dante, Kane, or Domino for ED.

I thought Tome of Nature used the Animal Lore and Animal Taming skills?


Looking at the wiki, it lists Bard, Ranger, and Thief spells.  So it was probably listed for once it is completed, it's there.  It would definitely add some more variety into the game with these spells added in. 
I am looking forward to them as well.


As far as changing the appearance of an item, you can have that done by Dante, Kane, or Domino for ED.

We will blame it on lack of coffee and call it good man.


It would be nice to see the capabilities of the Bard increased. 


New skills, such as charming an enemy humanoid and bringing them to the Bard's side for a short while.
Increased movement speed of the part while on foot.
Decreased agro range from enemies.
Ventriloquist type abilities to distract your opponent, such as making text from chat appear away from the player, distracting sounds to make enemies move towards those sounds.
Confusing an enemy to make them believe you and your party are one of them.


So many things are possible with a Bard.  Perhaps taking things from other game systems, both paper and digital and making them fit the Bards of Britania.

Its nice to see that theres still some folks out there that have a passion for the musical arts. I agree about searching some of the other types of games for barding ideas. One of my favorites was the way the minstrels and skalds were on dark age of camelot, where they actually wielded an instrument to run a chant that affected the entire group. Then again if they added the masteries it would serve as a similar function. As far as changing an items appearance, i keep forgetting the staff can do that 

Bard BODs! LoL!!! Get an order from your manager to perform at various locations using certain instruments and skills (as of now, different wood type instruments all turn out regular, but having a frostwood harp requirement would be cool). Higher skills result in higher ticket sales, and increase the gold reward. Gold reward only, or maybe potions that give a bard skill buff for an hour and lost upon death.

Hell yes that would open it up for something like the SWG entertainer, have people watch you to receive buffs for x ammount of time and open a tip/buff gump when the time has been reached. Maybe throw in a couple of uo song variations to play based on musicianship for the wait

Would be fun to steal a page from LOTRO with the players able to play music using various instruments.  Download ABC files to a folder and run a command to play that file, as long as it was for the instrument type you had in your hands you played it.


A LOT of heavy metal songs sounded really good on some of the instruments.


Ya DAOC had some really good Bard, Minstrel, and Skald game play.  Still remember talking a friend into respecting his mini for my stealthier group.  Was a really nasty surprise for people that night, lol.

Would be fun to steal a page from LOTRO with the players able to play music using various instruments.  Download ABC files to a folder and run a command to play that file, as long as it was for the instrument type you had in your hands you played it.


A LOT of heavy metal songs sounded really good on some of the instruments.


Ya DAOC had some really good Bard, Minstrel, and Skald game play.  Still remember talking a friend into respecting his mini for my stealthier group.  Was a really nasty surprise for people that night, lol.

1 scout, 1 mini, 3-4 Infi.


Wrecked some havoc long agon on the Caer Benowik bridges.  Had a few nights where the hibs and mids didn't cross the ones we were on, lol.


Ok back to the subject of Bards, before we keep talking DOAC all night.


Some tricks from SWG, DOAC, LOTRO might be viable in UO.  Of course it might make the power creep worse as a result, so that has to be taken into consideration for Dante and crew.


Group buffs from a minstrel would be nice. Area effect crowd control, charming of humanoid monsters, stealth CC burst in PvP.


Lots of ideas are starting to form as well as tactics too.


Taking the Minstrel out of combat aspect, it would be fun to see what people could do in game as far as forming a music band if they could get music to work the way LOTRO has currently.  Might be to difficult with the game engine though, it does have it's limitations unfortunetly.