sirnaff:

sockablock:

Do you think wizards in the d&d world are super salty about bards? Like, you spend decades and decades researching magic at the finest institutions across the lands so you can make fire and conjure ice, and then along comes some random asshole who wanders tavern to tavern telling suggestive folk tales and conning the villagers, some unkempt bastard who can sing so goddamn righteously that they also control minds and teleport places and bend time and fucking space to their will thanks to just a really well-placed A-sharp

Probably not, I mean, bards still have to have spent years honing their craft in order to be that good. Sorcerers, on the other hand, probably terrify wizards when they don’t simply inspire envy. “You can manipulate the same forces as me but are a angsty teen instead of a Ph. D.? Great, I’m sure you’ll be real responsible with your power.”