Bards are second only to rogues in picking locks. That's because we have a set of skills that are geared to this art, including access to the Minor Elementals (pick enhance, disarm enhance, unlock, disarm, piercing gaze) AND we can sing to locks to measure difficulty (better than calipers). While there may not be many bard locksmiths, there are a few.

It would be nice to get some guild skills that accent our ability with locks. Naturally, we'd have to have different tricks than rogues. Instead of wedging plated, enruned mithril boxes, for example, we could use precise harmonics to shatter the lock. Instead of removing gems from gem traps, we could explode them with a variation of purification song (it'd be nice to keep them, but would intrude on Rogue territory. Just give us some different options and abilities that bring our "locksinging" skills to a more accessible level.

Being a locksinger isn't an easy training path, since it demands some pretty steep sacrifices in other areas. But I bet more bards would give it a go if we had some guild skills to enhance our abilities. Maybe they could be tied in with other skills, so an entire branch of skills wasn't solely devoted to a seldom chosen path.

Just food for thought. Carry on. :)

~ Auntia and friends

(laughs softly)

We were told, quite solemnly, by two GMs, that the Bards' Guild was going to go live imminently, and that we should think strongly about which two or three bards ought to be the first appointed Guild Masters.

That bards' meeting was over sixteen years ago now.

Ain't never, ever going to happen.

>> Just don't believe in "never will happen".<<

How about "it might happen, but you will probably be dead by then".



The bells of Hell
go ting-a-ling-a-ling
for you but not for me