JayTee
Eight Thousand Club
Or more specifically, the idea of using music in combat.
Let me be clear, I like the idea of magic music, I think it's neat. I like the idea of a magician using warchants and such to hype up and mystically enhance a group of warriors to to better in battle, and I like the idea of a songweaver using soothing melodies after the battle to easy aches and pains and accelerate healing (or even using songs to just do the actual healing).
Heck, I even like the idea of using music magic for utility things, like singing stone in to a bridge so you can cross the canyon or performing a raindance so you can get your crops to grow in time for harvest. All of these are really cool to me.
Singing and dancing in combat though? That just seems dumb. Like, I cannot wrap my mind around the idea of a bard or whatever running around a battlefield dropping his tunes and not getting his face shot full of bullets/arrows/spells/swords/knives/horrible things of pain and death. Even if we ignore the fact that defending yourself is a pretty easy action to take in most games, just the imagery seems ridiculous.
Help me internalize and accept the idea of midcombat song.
Let me be clear, I like the idea of magic music, I think it's neat. I like the idea of a magician using warchants and such to hype up and mystically enhance a group of warriors to to better in battle, and I like the idea of a songweaver using soothing melodies after the battle to easy aches and pains and accelerate healing (or even using songs to just do the actual healing).
Heck, I even like the idea of using music magic for utility things, like singing stone in to a bridge so you can cross the canyon or performing a raindance so you can get your crops to grow in time for harvest. All of these are really cool to me.
Singing and dancing in combat though? That just seems dumb. Like, I cannot wrap my mind around the idea of a bard or whatever running around a battlefield dropping his tunes and not getting his face shot full of bullets/arrows/spells/swords/knives/horrible things of pain and death. Even if we ignore the fact that defending yourself is a pretty easy action to take in most games, just the imagery seems ridiculous.
Help me internalize and accept the idea of midcombat song.