I'm an actor, but like most of them you've probably never seen me, being
just stage in Chicago. Hate singing, but I can fake it. Bards were just as
much actors anyway, eh? Actually the keepers of history.

That's what sort of bothers me about the more, shall we say, rustic races:
they have no bards. This, to me, makes little sense, with no scholars you
think the trolls and ogres would at least have a bardic equivalent, perhaps
only using drums. Tribal cultures always have bards! In fact, once the
scholars start writing histories the bard loses its importance, and becomes
just an entertainer. In a tribal culture a bard is much more important.
Like a troll can have a shaman, I do think a troll should have some sort of
bard.

Roop was first created with Wizardry Proving Grounds. No bards in that
game, but he changed classes a lot, became quite a jack of all trades! Took
him to D&D, then I remember fondly A Bard's Tale, ah yes. Having to run up
to town to get Roop drunk so he could continue his songs, a great game for
its time. I sort of rollplay Roop the same way here, only he keeps a
plentiful supply of mead rather than water in his backpack, heheh. And my
character description isn't a lengthy bio, but just a description: "This elf
has bloodshot eyes and smells faintly of fishwine."

Roop