This. It's pretty standard faire "I got the shitty powers, but I'll use it to become a god" of 99% of this shit. Don't be surprised if twenty chapters later she learns the isekai equivalent of Vicious Mockery that's so demoralizing it makes people commit sudoku.
>This. It's pretty standard faire "I got the shitty powers, but I'll use it to become a god" of 99% of this shit.
Frankly I'm surprised it's not more popular on /tg/ given the enthusiasm for "the everyman is actually the special one" scenarios ie Human Male Fighter, HFY etc.
Most isekai writers are impatient, and so is their audience, so they essentially push the hero out of being a scrub creatively using their one useful power or improving themselves in other ways to make them godlings in just a few chapters as part of the power fantasy. Most of /tg/ would demand a story more like Goblin Slayer where the Human Male Fighter is stuck with his own talents and uses his "cleverness" to win the day by way of either tried and true killing methods, having chemistry or engineering knowledge despite living in a mudhole style medieval age, or using magic items in ways they were not intended just cause they can. Stories like the one OP posted would get cheers for the first few chapters, then immediate boos and cries of "dogshit" the moment they get a hint of a power-up.
Because the class fantasy (jack of all trades rockstar) is at odds with their mechanical reality (master of none inferior buffer/debuffer).
Most games are often tuned around challenging masters of certain skills rather than the average character. For example lock DCs are based on maxed out Rogue skill checks and Enemy ACs are based more on what Fighters, Paladins and Barbarians can hit with near max Strength. This causes the jack of all trades to under perform on practically everything.
For buffing and debuffing, Clerics and Wizards often have more powerful buffs/debuffs that only effect a limited number of targets while Bards can often effect a much greater number of targets with weaker buffs. Since most games have a low participant numbers for combats on the PC side buffing a greater number of participants is not as advantageous as single target buffs.
>Most isekai writers are impatient, and so is their audience, so they essentially push the hero out of being a scrub creatively using their one useful power or improving themselves in other ways to make them godlings in just a few chapters as part of the power fantasy.
>bard >inferior
Tell me again how you don't play games.
2 years ago
Anonymous
The bards have spend the most of the third edition of DnD as the gimped spellcasters with subbar martial skills being essentially the more magically competent skill monkeys than the rouges. The diplomancy builds were all about busting the broken RAW. I have to agree that the 5e bards are actually competitive, but that's because they are the full casters with the ability to pic and choose the spell combost from the multiple lists.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Bards had up to level 6 spells in 3e
That alone put them above half of the other classes in the PHB.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I know, but they were still far from the full caster dominated top tiers.
When was the last time you played a bard in d&d, 3.5?
Back then they were like you describe, area buffers that weren't very optimal, but in 4e and 5e they were/are top tier.
>more like goblin slayer
I'd prefer something with depth
You're in the minority, worthless manlets.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I'm pretty sure most of /tg/ likes the idea of Goblin Slayer but hates the execution.
2 years ago
Anonymous
The execution is perfect, you're just a goblin.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>The execution is perfect, you're just a goblin. >literally just a generic dime-a-dozen harem manga that occasionally shows random unimportant characters dying/being raped
2 years ago
Anonymous
[...] >seething this hard nobody likes goblin slayer >falling for babbies first deconstruction
lol
Soiboi posts.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>so low T he doesn't even know how to greentext
lol
2 years ago
Anonymous
[...]
You're in the minority, worthless manlets.
>seething this hard nobody likes goblin slayer >falling for babbies first deconstruction
lol
2 years ago
Anonymous
Redditor
2 years ago
Anonymous
>trying to call other people reddit while admitting to basic b***h tastes
lol
>the isekai equivalent of Vicious Mockery that's so demoralizing it makes people commit sudoku.
Killing people through superior shit talking is pretty based tbdesu
I'm so used to reading in weeb order that for a second I thought the sheer badassness of Ghost Rider caused the dead guy to come back to life and readjust his broken neck to witness him.
This. It's pretty standard faire "I got the shitty powers, but I'll use it to become a god" of 99% of this shit. Don't be surprised if twenty chapters later she learns the isekai equivalent of Vicious Mockery that's so demoralizing it makes people commit sudoku.
Most isekai writers are impatient, and so is their audience, so they essentially push the hero out of being a scrub creatively using their one useful power or improving themselves in other ways to make them godlings in just a few chapters as part of the power fantasy. Most of /tg/ would demand a story more like Goblin Slayer where the Human Male Fighter is stuck with his own talents and uses his "cleverness" to win the day by way of either tried and true killing methods, having chemistry or engineering knowledge despite living in a mudhole style medieval age, or using magic items in ways they were not intended just cause they can. Stories like the one OP posted would get cheers for the first few chapters, then immediate boos and cries of "dogshit" the moment they get a hint of a power-up.
1-HP Munchkin is decent. Not great, but refreshingly aware of PnP systems (seems to be very loosely based on 3.5), isekai gimmick of the MC basically stealing the DM Guidebook before he's sent to the other world, getting cursed to never be able to add to his HP total, and just trying to powergame as much as possible because he will die if he takes even a single hit. Includes him bullying a failpaladin into switching gods for better minmaxing, abusing a druid familiar using Size Change, and Finally taking a hit, during the stereotypical lucky pervert moment in the baths, except she rolled a critical with an improvised weapon so it actually did damage and killed him.
Because modern DnDogshit turned them from esoteric academics who dabbled in a bit of everything to gay snowflake musicians who are constantly horny for degenerate shit.
Because D&D is anarcho-libertarian-randian genocide simulator.
There are no roads, no public security and no society, so somebody whose power is memetically bullying you, besmirching your memory and kicking your family's credit rating to the curb forevermore is just completely irrelevant from a gameplay perspective.
AKA, bards are usually played by the same type of homosexual who plays rainbow-colored tieflings. It's a desperate cry for attention based on nothing but being "special" in the most superficial way because their parents never loved them and they spend all day on social media and cartoon porn websites.
i'm playing a halfling barbarian/bard and i'm just a fricking Dex based Meatshield. Its fun buffing my buds while staring down an evil wizard but i guess you can be upset about it.
They want a class that buffs/heals allies or debuffs enemies. They don't want to smack things with a weapon or a spell because >I don't like violence >I don't like killing things >My character is a pacifist >Can't we reason with them? >Simply dealing damage is too braindead easy >I was abused in the past and don't want to hurt things
Or some variation of one of those
Can't wrap my head around it, sounds like those homosexual clerics who want to do things other than heal, this is why I prefer all wizard parties, none of this gay storyshitter shit.
They want a class that buffs/heals allies or debuffs enemies. They don't want to smack things with a weapon or a spell because >I don't like violence >I don't like killing things >My character is a pacifist >Can't we reason with them? >Simply dealing damage is too braindead easy >I was abused in the past and don't want to hurt things
Or some variation of one of those
When I played a pacifist Bard, it was as a challenge to myself, since I had in the past been playing a lot of combat monster characters that trivialized combat, and it got boring.
Following further on that, I also wanted to instead lift others up and give them a chance to shine, especially given I had a decade more of experience than anyone else at the table.
Playing a support class is one of the only times where you can shamelessly and heavily optimize and minmax without anyone getting pissy because >My character feels useless compared to yours
or >It feels like there's no danger, we can't die, everything just gets healed
Bards and Divine Soul Sorcerers are really good at that.
Everybody but the DM likes an overpowered support class. Hell I never had any issues with the DM when I was belting out 5d6 sonic damage per attack buffs from that one 3.5 bard build because all the melee/archery gays loved that shit.
for anyone that wants to read this
https://mangadex.org/title/826aec63-3fa8-413d-9a40-d2d1ef262725/saikyou-no-shien-shoku-wajutsushi-dearu-ore-wa-sekai-saikyou-kuran-o-shitagaeru
>read this >its a born with a class fantasy story
cringe >not isekai
pause? >its literally about a bard >he starts a guild so he could be in charge and buff people making him "effectively" the strongest >no cheats
ok wait I thought this was supposed to be bad?
yeah but that doesn't equal bad. its just fine.
also chapter 2 >mc has a gun
hmmmmm >he has hold monster
hmmmmmmmmmm >is bad at combat 1v1 combat and actually taking down enemies
ok!
"Femboys are the highes tier of hotness, appealing to all genders and races. Now hand over that GP."
2 years ago
Anonymous
ok i'm done with the first arc
its actually good
2 years ago
Anonymous
Are the English translators this bad or do japs just talk like morons
2 years ago
Anonymous
translating things literally leads to a stilted result which is frequently wildly over or underdramatic and even outright nonsensical things when idioms get brought in
translating things less literally can lead to a lack of accuracy which can make it sound stupid in a completely different direction
this is a common problem in translation made worse by japanese being linguistically "far" from english, as opposed to, say, french which is about as close to english as france is to england
2 years ago
Anonymous
Add to that the fact that manga translators are absolutely bottom of the barrel and get paid peanuts.
Being a musician it's on the bottom tier things you can do irl, because it's almost impossible to do it reliably as a way to live.
You need to either go compete with 1000 other people on tv, be the son of the son of someone, be handsome enough at the right place to be an industry plant...
Meritocracy in music is a 1-in-a-thousand thing, just to be able to live. 1 in a million to be "big"
Doing it in fantasy is laughable.
It's also a moron concept.
It's like playing a painter that buff the party in the off-time drawing things
Most roleplaying games are set in places without recorded media or mass media. There is a whole lot more demand for performing musicians in that kind of environment, and a traveling bard really just needs to make room and board. They also are going to be open to taking odd jobs to make money on the side and if they travel, they have to be able to fight well enough that bandits don't give them trouble. Hence becoming adventurers.
Being a musician it's on the bottom tier things you can do irl, because it's almost impossible to do it reliably as a way to live.
You need to either go compete with 1000 other people on tv, be the son of the son of someone, be handsome enough at the right place to be an industry plant...
Meritocracy in music is a 1-in-a-thousand thing, just to be able to live. 1 in a million to be "big"
Doing it in fantasy is laughable.
It's also a moron concept.
It's like playing a painter that buff the party in the off-time drawing things
Even nowadays you have live bands playing and people singing karaoke. You don't need to be a big name to be a musician. As much as mass media (including Ganker) thinks that obscure things are bad.
memes
that's it
it's just a meme that has become so widespread it's practically a genre convention for bad fantasy
depending on game and edition, bard varies in power, but rarely hits top or bottom tier
it's a support character after all, and, used properly, a support character makes *others* outperform their tier - but typically doesn't succeed in other roles
this is confused for being all-around bad by people who judge by blastiest spells or biggest swords as well as people who just try to play it as something it's not
1) In 1e and 2e Bards were nerds who went to collages. You literally had to go Rogue, Fighter, Druid, and THEN into Bard, if you had a high enough Charisma.
2) 3.x made Bards the bawd class.
3) Historically bards were nerds who learned everything about people and sang and wrote of their deeds. Meanwhile monks and priests were second and third sons sent ti monasteries to not cause a civil war and ate better than kings and fricked more women than them as well.
Joined a game years ago that was already progressing a bit. Dual wielding Barb / Ranger, dual wielding rogue, summon focused druid, summon focused wizard. I looked at that and said "I'll make a Bard."
Took the +1 buffs from feat, spell, & masterwork instrument for Inspire Heroics or whatever with Lingering Song feat. Giving the dual wielding PC's +4 to hit and damage along with multi attack creature summons = OP as frick in 3.5 or Pathfinder at lvl 3-5, and only gets stronger from there.
The fluff sounds absurd if you don't know the cultural background of skalds and bards and whatnot. >so you have the guy who studies magic >the guy who gets his magic from a patron or a god >the guy who was born with it >all right >but this gay here, he sings and it's magic because...
The two people who I have ever seen actually play bard were the really fat girl in my highschool drama class who would constantly try and seduce everything and was really obnoxious to the point we didn't invite her back for our game senior year and a really chill musically inclined dude who just is there to have a good time, roll some dice, and hang out.
because they fill a useless party slot >less charismatic than the Paladin >not as sneaky as the thief >lacks the magic of the Wizard/Sorcerer >healing cannot compare to a Cleric
the only reason people play bard is if they wanna be the "suave flirty guy"
My Dragonborn Bard fights Hand to Hand with Fighting astyle mastery borrowing Unarmed fighting from the fighter. He may as well gave the middle name "Flexington" because his CHA is 18 but I made his STR 20. He entertains by wrestling and bar brawling with performance checks and fights Frontline on adventure while making room for his spells and class abilities when necessary.
Anyone else make a Bard who's an exotic dancer trying to leave that part of her life behind, but it's what she's best at so she kind of has to until she can learn another way to do performances
Because the isekai manga conveyor authors are moronic and have to rely on 3 same gimmicks to try and sell their swivel.
This. It's pretty standard faire "I got the shitty powers, but I'll use it to become a god" of 99% of this shit. Don't be surprised if twenty chapters later she learns the isekai equivalent of Vicious Mockery that's so demoralizing it makes people commit sudoku.
>This. It's pretty standard faire "I got the shitty powers, but I'll use it to become a god" of 99% of this shit.
Frankly I'm surprised it's not more popular on /tg/ given the enthusiasm for "the everyman is actually the special one" scenarios ie Human Male Fighter, HFY etc.
Most isekai writers are impatient, and so is their audience, so they essentially push the hero out of being a scrub creatively using their one useful power or improving themselves in other ways to make them godlings in just a few chapters as part of the power fantasy. Most of /tg/ would demand a story more like Goblin Slayer where the Human Male Fighter is stuck with his own talents and uses his "cleverness" to win the day by way of either tried and true killing methods, having chemistry or engineering knowledge despite living in a mudhole style medieval age, or using magic items in ways they were not intended just cause they can. Stories like the one OP posted would get cheers for the first few chapters, then immediate boos and cries of "dogshit" the moment they get a hint of a power-up.
Because the class fantasy (jack of all trades rockstar) is at odds with their mechanical reality (master of none inferior buffer/debuffer).
Most games are often tuned around challenging masters of certain skills rather than the average character. For example lock DCs are based on maxed out Rogue skill checks and Enemy ACs are based more on what Fighters, Paladins and Barbarians can hit with near max Strength. This causes the jack of all trades to under perform on practically everything.
For buffing and debuffing, Clerics and Wizards often have more powerful buffs/debuffs that only effect a limited number of targets while Bards can often effect a much greater number of targets with weaker buffs. Since most games have a low participant numbers for combats on the PC side buffing a greater number of participants is not as advantageous as single target buffs.
>Most isekai writers are impatient, and so is their audience, so they essentially push the hero out of being a scrub creatively using their one useful power or improving themselves in other ways to make them godlings in just a few chapters as part of the power fantasy.
Which is why those powers are called "cheats."
>bard
>inferior
Tell me again how you don't play games.
The bards have spend the most of the third edition of DnD as the gimped spellcasters with subbar martial skills being essentially the more magically competent skill monkeys than the rouges. The diplomancy builds were all about busting the broken RAW. I have to agree that the 5e bards are actually competitive, but that's because they are the full casters with the ability to pic and choose the spell combost from the multiple lists.
Bards had up to level 6 spells in 3e
That alone put them above half of the other classes in the PHB.
I know, but they were still far from the full caster dominated top tiers.
When was the last time you played a bard in d&d, 3.5?
Back then they were like you describe, area buffers that weren't very optimal, but in 4e and 5e they were/are top tier.
>. Most of /tg/ would demand a story more like Goblin Slayer
No.
You're in the minority, worthless manlets.
I'm pretty sure most of /tg/ likes the idea of Goblin Slayer but hates the execution.
The execution is perfect, you're just a goblin.
>The execution is perfect, you're just a goblin.
>literally just a generic dime-a-dozen harem manga that occasionally shows random unimportant characters dying/being raped
Soiboi posts.
>so low T he doesn't even know how to greentext
lol
>seething this hard nobody likes goblin slayer
>falling for babbies first deconstruction
lol
Redditor
>trying to call other people reddit while admitting to basic b***h tastes
lol
>more like goblin slayer
I'd prefer something with depth
I don't think you understand HFY very well
>the isekai equivalent of Vicious Mockery that's so demoralizing it makes people commit sudoku.
Killing people through superior shit talking is pretty based tbdesu
I'm so used to reading in weeb order that for a second I thought the sheer badassness of Ghost Rider caused the dead guy to come back to life and readjust his broken neck to witness him.
>you are already fed
Swill, not swivel.
Curse my ESL heritage. I'll go commit Sapporo immediately.
I like how you fricked up swill and drivel and mixed them into an already existing word that means neither.
1-HP Munchkin is decent. Not great, but refreshingly aware of PnP systems (seems to be very loosely based on 3.5), isekai gimmick of the MC basically stealing the DM Guidebook before he's sent to the other world, getting cursed to never be able to add to his HP total, and just trying to powergame as much as possible because he will die if he takes even a single hit. Includes him bullying a failpaladin into switching gods for better minmaxing, abusing a druid familiar using Size Change, and Finally taking a hit, during the stereotypical lucky pervert moment in the baths, except she rolled a critical with an improvised weapon so it actually did damage and killed him.
Where the doujins?
Cringe
Ah isekai otherwise known as the “how fast can we contrive the main character getting a harem” genre
Because modern DnDogshit turned them from esoteric academics who dabbled in a bit of everything to gay snowflake musicians who are constantly horny for degenerate shit.
It's because they went from dabblers who did a bit of everything to magical rogues who have to invest in charisma.
Because they're flat.
Because D&D is anarcho-libertarian-randian genocide simulator.
There are no roads, no public security and no society, so somebody whose power is memetically bullying you, besmirching your memory and kicking your family's credit rating to the curb forevermore is just completely irrelevant from a gameplay perspective.
They're not wizards, they're not clerics, they're not even fighters, I don't get why people play classes like that.
To be "quirky" and "different".
AKA, bards are usually played by the same type of homosexual who plays rainbow-colored tieflings. It's a desperate cry for attention based on nothing but being "special" in the most superficial way because their parents never loved them and they spend all day on social media and cartoon porn websites.
i'm playing a halfling barbarian/bard and i'm just a fricking Dex based Meatshield. Its fun buffing my buds while staring down an evil wizard but i guess you can be upset about it.
I just want to relive my childhood memories play this chad
A fantasy of being a smooth talker that uses his wits more than raw power has nothing to do with it. You let twitter poison your mind
>Failing to account for theater and band kids
shiggy diggy my niggy
What are you talking about? He just described every theater/ band kid ever
They want to play a class that is helpful without directly doing damage, and they are atheists who hate their religious parents.
Or they are musicians, writers, or actors and want a class that represents that.
>They want to play a class that is helpful without directly doing damage
Anon, I don't understand.
They want a class that buffs/heals allies or debuffs enemies. They don't want to smack things with a weapon or a spell because
>I don't like violence
>I don't like killing things
>My character is a pacifist
>Can't we reason with them?
>Simply dealing damage is too braindead easy
>I was abused in the past and don't want to hurt things
Or some variation of one of those
Can't wrap my head around it, sounds like those homosexual clerics who want to do things other than heal, this is why I prefer all wizard parties, none of this gay storyshitter shit.
>>Can't we reason with them?
With five bards, anyone can be your groupie.
When I played a pacifist Bard, it was as a challenge to myself, since I had in the past been playing a lot of combat monster characters that trivialized combat, and it got boring.
Following further on that, I also wanted to instead lift others up and give them a chance to shine, especially given I had a decade more of experience than anyone else at the table.
Playing a support class is one of the only times where you can shamelessly and heavily optimize and minmax without anyone getting pissy because
>My character feels useless compared to yours
or
>It feels like there's no danger, we can't die, everything just gets healed
Bards and Divine Soul Sorcerers are really good at that.
Whole post is trufax
>Bards and Divine Soul Sorcerers are really good at that.
Yeah, and coincidentally they're some of my favorites to play
Everybody but the DM likes an overpowered support class. Hell I never had any issues with the DM when I was belting out 5d6 sonic damage per attack buffs from that one 3.5 bard build because all the melee/archery gays loved that shit.
because the bard spell list is pretty good, and they can multi into useful characters
The Most Notorius Talker
Man, that's some terrible art.
And I say that as somebody who used to read BL.
Because they were based on a patrician yet too obscure fantasy archetype which does not fit with the current iteration of Tropes & Shenanigans.
for anyone that wants to read this
https://mangadex.org/title/826aec63-3fa8-413d-9a40-d2d1ef262725/saikyou-no-shien-shoku-wajutsushi-dearu-ore-wa-sekai-saikyou-kuran-o-shitagaeru
>read this
>its a born with a class fantasy story
cringe
>not isekai
pause?
>its literally about a bard
>he starts a guild so he could be in charge and buff people making him "effectively" the strongest
>no cheats
ok wait I thought this was supposed to be bad?
The art is kinda shit and there's probably a dozend similar series out there.
yeah but that doesn't equal bad. its just fine.
also chapter 2
>mc has a gun
hmmmmm
>he has hold monster
hmmmmmmmmmm
>is bad at combat 1v1 combat and actually taking down enemies
ok!
>You look just like your deceased mother
Pulls no punches.
"Femboys are the highes tier of hotness, appealing to all genders and races. Now hand over that GP."
ok i'm done with the first arc
its actually good
Are the English translators this bad or do japs just talk like morons
translating things literally leads to a stilted result which is frequently wildly over or underdramatic and even outright nonsensical things when idioms get brought in
translating things less literally can lead to a lack of accuracy which can make it sound stupid in a completely different direction
this is a common problem in translation made worse by japanese being linguistically "far" from english, as opposed to, say, french which is about as close to english as france is to england
Add to that the fact that manga translators are absolutely bottom of the barrel and get paid peanuts.
Bards should be spies and assassins.
Thom Marrilin is best bard.
Dark Sun
Japs don't play games.
someone should take away your ability to make threads.
Being a musician it's on the bottom tier things you can do irl, because it's almost impossible to do it reliably as a way to live.
You need to either go compete with 1000 other people on tv, be the son of the son of someone, be handsome enough at the right place to be an industry plant...
Meritocracy in music is a 1-in-a-thousand thing, just to be able to live. 1 in a million to be "big"
Doing it in fantasy is laughable.
It's also a moron concept.
It's like playing a painter that buff the party in the off-time drawing things
You literally just pointed out why someone would play a bard as their fantasy.
Most roleplaying games are set in places without recorded media or mass media. There is a whole lot more demand for performing musicians in that kind of environment, and a traveling bard really just needs to make room and board. They also are going to be open to taking odd jobs to make money on the side and if they travel, they have to be able to fight well enough that bandits don't give them trouble. Hence becoming adventurers.
Even nowadays you have live bands playing and people singing karaoke. You don't need to be a big name to be a musician. As much as mass media (including Ganker) thinks that obscure things are bad.
memes
that's it
it's just a meme that has become so widespread it's practically a genre convention for bad fantasy
depending on game and edition, bard varies in power, but rarely hits top or bottom tier
it's a support character after all, and, used properly, a support character makes *others* outperform their tier - but typically doesn't succeed in other roles
this is confused for being all-around bad by people who judge by blastiest spells or biggest swords as well as people who just try to play it as something it's not
1) In 1e and 2e Bards were nerds who went to collages. You literally had to go Rogue, Fighter, Druid, and THEN into Bard, if you had a high enough Charisma.
2) 3.x made Bards the bawd class.
3) Historically bards were nerds who learned everything about people and sang and wrote of their deeds. Meanwhile monks and priests were second and third sons sent ti monasteries to not cause a civil war and ate better than kings and fricked more women than them as well.
Joined a game years ago that was already progressing a bit. Dual wielding Barb / Ranger, dual wielding rogue, summon focused druid, summon focused wizard. I looked at that and said "I'll make a Bard."
Took the +1 buffs from feat, spell, & masterwork instrument for Inspire Heroics or whatever with Lingering Song feat. Giving the dual wielding PC's +4 to hit and damage along with multi attack creature summons = OP as frick in 3.5 or Pathfinder at lvl 3-5, and only gets stronger from there.
Because most of them aren't METAL
The fluff sounds absurd if you don't know the cultural background of skalds and bards and whatnot.
>so you have the guy who studies magic
>the guy who gets his magic from a patron or a god
>the guy who was born with it
>all right
>but this gay here, he sings and it's magic because...
because it's a long way to the top if you wanna rock n' roll
The two people who I have ever seen actually play bard were the really fat girl in my highschool drama class who would constantly try and seduce everything and was really obnoxious to the point we didn't invite her back for our game senior year and a really chill musically inclined dude who just is there to have a good time, roll some dice, and hang out.
because they fill a useless party slot
>less charismatic than the Paladin
>not as sneaky as the thief
>lacks the magic of the Wizard/Sorcerer
>healing cannot compare to a Cleric
the only reason people play bard is if they wanna be the "suave flirty guy"
I'd be concerned if the bard didn't max out his charisma
If you want to social be a social Solar exalted. Anything less is worthless
Sure, lemme just roll one up in my SWN game.
My Dragonborn Bard fights Hand to Hand with Fighting astyle mastery borrowing Unarmed fighting from the fighter. He may as well gave the middle name "Flexington" because his CHA is 18 but I made his STR 20. He entertains by wrestling and bar brawling with performance checks and fights Frontline on adventure while making room for his spells and class abilities when necessary.
Anyone else make a Bard who's an exotic dancer trying to leave that part of her life behind, but it's what she's best at so she kind of has to until she can learn another way to do performances