A Bard, As In Shakespeare

We’ve been using In This World to explore D&D concepts, as you do. Last week: dungeons. This week: character classes.

One of our statements is, in normal D&D, bards are musicians. They sing and play music. But in this world, bards are writers. They write and tell stories, traveling across the land to share tales, lore, and news.

So in this world, do rogues steal stuff? Sort of. Rogues are plagiarists. They claim bards’ stories as their own, sleazing into town and telling bad imitations in the market square, or putting their names in someone else’s books.

In this world, no one likes rogues.