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No Love For Bards
April 13, 2004
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Poor bards: so often they don't get any respect. Fighters look on them as being pansies, unable to use much heavier weapons than a longsword or even a rapier; rogues see them as too slow and overly flashy; magic-users see them as not being serious enough. But really, if you want a character that is honestly a usual multi-classer's dream? GO BARD. I myself once suffered from bard-dislike - recalling largely how useless they were all the way back in Dragon Warrior III - until I saw my friend Elias play a bard right. He and my other friend Devin (who kicked some ass - particularly at the end of the campaign where we were all trapped in a force cage and he let loose with the Fireballs of DOOM(tm) - as a sorcerer) were two drow on the run, and got looped up in the party through strange means, and eventually ended up altering their alignments through means too awesome and long-winded to be elaborated upon here. If you were there - or if you are one of the unfortunate souls I roped into listening into the ENTIRE RUN of our adventures - you'll know what happened. Heh. Anyhow. Long story short: bards don't get the respect, which is a shame because they can kick a lot of ass if played correctly.
HEY HEY! Importantness: if you might want to meet me, or do fun things, or like gaming, or whatever, and you're in or near the Irvine (or even LA) area, ZotCon might interest you. UCI's RPG Club (The University of California: Irvine's Role Playing Game Club, to those of you who dislike acronyms) is putting together a badass con of their own, featuring some truly nifty one-shot gaming groups and a lot of other nifty stuff. I'm working on putting together a panel with fellow webcomic artists/writers in the UCI RPG Club, Barry Figgins (of Only One) and Eleanor Ferron (of Dead End Studios): no guarantees as of yet as to availability and participation of artists and such, but that's okay. I'll keep you all posted on developments, am looking for your input on the whole thing (as well as wondering how many people could/would be interested in attending), and so on. And most of all, ZotCon is going to be a lot of fun no matter what, and I urge you all to attend on Sunday, May 9. It'll be badass. ::grin::
Quick shot of funny to the arm - found through no less than THREE completely different sources within the last three days - is the Subservient Chicken. Just go. Tell it to do things. Laugh at the result. Apparently, somehow it is also connected to Burger King - through nefarious means, or whatever - but I mind this not, so long as the funny keeps coming. Whether the connection is corporate and official or unofficial, rest assured that it is not the painfully unfunny "unofficial" that is "Wendy's Unofficial Spokesman" (usually we put people like him in the rooms with the padded walls and the jacket that makes you hug yourself alllll day... not that I know what it's like... ::runs quickly away::) But yeah. Enjoy the funny.
Well, that's it for me today: enjoy, be well, and don't forget to eat your vegetables. Or something. Peace out.
She Kids Because She Loves,
Annie "Blue" C
You're out living it up today
I've got dues to pay
- Cake
"Sheep Go To Heaven"
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