Musician Archive

Since people want entertainers to have combat skills, I think it would be cool if, after Musicianship IV, in addition to going Musician we could also have a choice for Military Musician. Okay that's a really lame name which should be different, but you get the idea. Like in the olden days when they had drummers and fife players moving alongside the troops. You could get a whole new line of instruments like strap-on drums and such, and adrenaline pumping songs. You can only play music while in a group and in combat with something, and your music provides stat and perhaps damage bonuses to the people in your group. Thoughts, suggestions?

Definitely could be fun -- could have some similar abilities to squad leader (rally and whatnot). Especially if we get bagpipes.

The only people I know who want to create "combat musicians" are melee types who want a "bard" around. I don't know any real musicians who want to run around in combat buffing people.

Keep the music on the stage where it belongs.

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SlickRiptide wrote:

The only people I know who want to create "combat musicians" are melee types who want a "bard" around. I don't know any real musicians who want to run around in combat buffing people.

Keep the music on the stage where it belongs.

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Well you wouldn't have to do it, it'd be a different profession. And it shouldn't be too out of place or annoying, because the music would be designed as battle-music. You have to admit, it gets annoying hearing the same songs everytime you engage in combat.

I play an entertainer, and it gets kind of old having to stay in the cantina all the time.

Really, though -- as much as I'd love the Highland Bagpipes in game (which I do play IRL, albeit not terribly well) the whole point to battlefield music was to manage the battlefield. In the future (or in a galaxy far, far away) they've got these things called "radios" and "comlinks" to handle this part of the strategery.

As cool as it'd be to have a bagpipe, it doesn't fit with the genre.