Sunday 8 October 2023

Bardic School Missions



Everyone loves bards. 
Ill be doing a few bard changes next campaign and will use slightly less generous spell per level lis. Currently my biggest mod to bards is letting them choose one of four spell lists. This has been fun as I end up with druidic, cleric, wizard and mentalist bards. Might mod song list per type more?

d12 Quick Bardic Types
1 Druidic bard of the forest tribes with harp and horn
2 Barbarian skald from the frontier tribes and sea raiders with harp and bagpipes and divine magic
3 Philosopher bard from city-states with lyre and drums with arcane magic
4 Profesional mourner sings laments and wails with harp and bone flute with divine magic
5 Minstrel from knightly kingdoms with a lute and a flute and arcane magic
6 Holy singer of a temple complex with sistrum and lyre with divine magic
7 Crude jester and acrobatic tumbler with horn and drum with mentalist magic
8 Troubador romantic poets are all the rage with young and fashionable courts play lute and flute and use mentalist magic
9 Wild folk tribe singer from the wastelands play sticks and horns and use druidic magic 
10 Army musician who marches with soldiers with horn and drums and divine magic, often carry a war banner
11 Robed chanter from far-off land play cymbals and drums and perform acrobatic leaps with knives and use arcane magic
12 Herald serves a noble and delivers messages on behalf of their lord and may carry a flag and play lute and horn and use mentalist spells

d10 Quick Mission Types
1 Performance
2 Composition
3 Espionage
4 Gossip
5 Inspired deeds
6 Diplomacy
7 Strange deals
8 Recovery 
9 Fame
10 Other worlds

d100 Bardic School Missions
01 Perform in a village festival and house a crowd
02 Perform in the court of nobility and offer them your advice
03 Play for soldiers marching to battle
04 Make a crowd weep playing laments at a funeral ceremony
05 Encourage an angry mob or protest with a song
06 Have a musical duel with an audience
07 Tour the region alone on foot
08 Spread an amusing naughty song slandering enemies
09 Busk in street until a noble invites you to perform in their home
10 Perform a banned song like something slandering the crown
11 Compase heroic epic of a hero's tragic failure
12 Write a catchy comedic rhyme mocking a public leader
13 Compose a history of a place or thing in verse
14 Write a catchy song that spreads across the region
15 Compose a song to be banned by authorities
16 Write a musical or light opera and have it performed in the city
17 Write a charming love song or poem
18 Write a popular drinking song
19 Write music that inspires a new dance
20 Write a popular nursery rhyme or skipping song for children
21 Watch several students of a rival school and record some of their songs
22 Show  up a local bard then try to influence leaders' decision
23 Perform in a manor and take note of guards, supplies and readiness
24 Seduce a household servant so you can steal a book of ancient verse
25 Stop a bard singing trash about our song style
26 Steal a copy of an opera of a dead artist who stole from our school or even better replace it
27 Seduce a millitary or officer and read their secret documents 
28 Find out dirt on a rival school bard and learn their secrets so we can slander them into poverty 
29 Establish a lover or friend or arent in multiple important households
30 Perform for royalty and get a glimpse of the current count business
31 Spread the story of noble's poor health and impotence and how it will curse the region
32 Spread story of government corruption
33 Spread story a death row criminal is really innocent and was a defender of the commoners
34 Spread song about glorious war and slandering some other kingdom or territory
35 Gossip about the corrupt priesthood of a religion
36 Gossip about all the weird deaths of people mocking elves
37 Spread gossip across the region to counter some other wild rumour not in our interest 
38 Quash a rumour about our parton family and spread a more scandalous story about this other merchant clan
39 Spread scary stories about supernatural monsters in the wilderness and night
40 Spread scary stories about the menace of humanoids destroying the frontier soon
41 Encourage adventurers to glorious destruction of a dungeon and record this deed in a poem
42 Encourage the mob to drink a tavern dry with a huge drinking binge
43 Encourage a duelist to victory and spread their glory
44 Encourage a lover to elope with their sweetheart and escape thus foiling some dynastic scheme
45 Inspire working artisans to produce better works on some artistic creation 
46 Become a tutor for a young noble and influence them
47 Accompany a travelling knight and inspire them to victory and record it
48 Follow a journeying graduate wizard apprentice and record their travels
49 Encourage soldiers to do heroic deeds in a battle with you following to record their deeds
50 Write a religious song promoting a doctrine beneficial to us
51 Stop a clan feud with negotiations
52 Join a noble entourage and encourage cool heads and peace
53 Perform for delegates at a meeting so they are calm during the next day's negotiations
54 Carry this secret document and look out for enemy spies
55 Convince a leader to change their position in a conference
56 Find evidence and blackmail a delegate at a conference
57 Sabotage the journey of a scholar delivering his report to the region's capital
58 Help a side in a dispute over border stones between two districts
59 Duel a bard in public who speaks for our enemies to invalidate their cause 
60 A mob need your support to address a mean noble. They demand slightly fewer taxes and to end some new unfair tax like door tax and smiling too much tax
61 Perform for non-human leaders and get away to tell
62 Make an agreement with non-humans and local peoples
63 Enjoy a feast with halflings or other small folk and don't offend them by being sick or vulgar
64 Contact a non-human leader and find out what they most want or need
65 Contact a forest witch coven and negotiate a curse removal
66 Play in the wild and contact or play with some spirits or sylvan beings like fauns
67 Spy on dancing faeries or witches to steal their tunes
68 Obtain a non-human-made musical instrument and perform with it
69 Perform with wilderness creatures like crickets or frogs which impresses fairies
70 Perform for dancing faeries or sylvan beings
71 Recover the lost poem or book of a famous writer
72 Search the tomb of a great writer and see if there are any lost works or notes you can dig up
73 Find an old forgotten poet and update their work then popularise their genius
74 Befiend book collectors and seek lost works in their greedy clutches
75 Inscibe tomb carvings from ancient tombs and translate it
76 Obtain an important lost book at an auction at any cost
77 Seach for an original copy of a prophecy lost long ago but fragments now seem relevant again
78 Donate copies of your works to a library
79 Go protect this library of bardic lore from strange vermin  
80 Go collect the lost books taken by non-humans from a wagon of monks
81 Get a show in a famous posh theatre in the city
82 Put on a play at a holy theatre complex
83 Put on a royal opera
84 Taken show on tour across another kingdom
85 Asked to put on a show in real haunted castle for a fortune
86 Tame or distract or make a deal with a dragon
87 Perform for a royal faerie or a monster king court 
88 Form a successful band with other bards and perform in public
89 Entertain a petty god to keep them happy 
90 Perform for an important city ritual or ceremony 
91 Speak to a ghost to learn its song
92 Trade songs with a non-human performer or storyteller
93 Learn the secret songs of trees 
94 Live with supernatural singing creatures like sirens or mermaids to learn their songs
95 Spy on a bathing deity or land divinity to inspire your love longs
96 Lure a monster to its doom by singing its love song
97 Inspire a feast into a bloody massacre with some wisecracks
98 Seduce a royal youth and sneak them away to a mysterious holy community sure this is or the best
99 Seduce a hag or gaggle of harpies to get close to steal their treasured gold harp
100 Journey to another world and return

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