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| Bards work magic through performance, using one or more performing arts, such as acting, music, song, or dance.
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| Their magic, often used to charm and influence, can potentially calm raging seas or even enchant death itself.
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| Ideas about the origin of bardic magic are as varied as the bards themselves.
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| A popular one is that the world was made using the Song of Creation, the first song, performed by mysterious powers at the dawn of creation.
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| This lingers still in the Music of the Spheres, and bards attune to this to do magic.
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| Another idea is that bards charm mighty spirits or great powers to assist them.
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| Wizards and clerics dismiss such notions, claiming bards merely distort spells into performances.
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| Bards are known by many names: orphics, troubadours, and countless titles for performers, reflecting their varied traditions.
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| '''Touchstones''':
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| Ariel (''The Little Mermaid,'' 1989),
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| Giselle (''Enchanted,'' 2007),
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| Rapunzel (''Tangled,'' 2010),
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| Miguel (''Coco,'' 2017).
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| === Trauma Condition—Resonance ===
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| You use performance to activate your powers.
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| This may attract attention but can blend seamlessly into ordinary performances.
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| As a bard, your first Power Form must be
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Animal Powers (FiD)|Animal]]</span>,
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Darkness Powers (FiD)|Darkness]]</span>,
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Death Powers (FiD)|Death]]</span>,
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Flux Powers (FiD)|Flux]]</span>,
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Illusion Powers (FiD)|Illusion]]</span>,
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Life Powers (FiD)|Life]]</span>,
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Light Powers (FiD)|Light]]</span>,
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Mind Powers (FiD)|Mind]]</span>,
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Order Powers (FiD)|Order]]</span>, or
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Time Powers (FiD)|Time]]</span>.
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| These are marked in green on the power list below.
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| When gaining further powers, you can select any bard power you wish.
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| === Special Abilities ===
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| ==== Ambience ====
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| When you perform for a moment, define the dominant mood of the scene
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| (brave, festive, romantic, solemn).
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| While you perform — and for an equal time afterward or until the scene changes —
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| rolls that align with the mood gain improved Position.
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| ==== Epic ====
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| By performing for 5 minutes with an audience of scale appropriate to your tier (p 221), you reduce the stress cost of a power or [[Rituals (FiD)|Ritual]] you or an ally uses by two.
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| ==== Gracious ====
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| You can roll your [[Actions_(IB)#Consort|Consort]] to recover Stress when indulging vice.
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| Your crew also gains this benefit when they indulge with you; they can use your vice and provider.
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| If they do, overindulging creates new relations within the team or reveals a personal secret, often fleshing out the background of a character.
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| ==== Inspiration ====
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| You can Assist someone without even being there as long as they saw you perform.
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| ''Say what performance inspired them.''
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| This can affect their view of you.
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| You can inspire twice per session without expending Stress.
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| ==== Listener ====
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| When you Gather Information using Consort, you get +1d.
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| Successfully gathering info in preparation for a score gives +1d to the engagement.
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| ==== Star ====
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| Gain increased Effect when you perform for an audience, including holding a speech.
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| Your crew gains an additional xp trigger: Cooperate to perform for an audience with scale based on tier (p 221).
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| You know all kinds of performance. ''If detail is desired, you know a number of [[Actions_(FiD)#Performing_Arts|performing arts]] equal to the sum of your ratings in [[Actions_(IB)#Consort|Consort]], [[Actions_(IB)#Finesse|Finesse]], and [[Actions_(IB)#Sway|Sway]].''
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| ==== Tete-a-tete ====
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| Push a Resolve action to add leverage to a successful action: ''attract everyone's attention — get a scene alone with someone — escape a location''.
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| ==== Additional Playbook ====
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| Select another playbook. You gain immediate access to its Inventory and XP conditions.
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| From now on, you can choose its Special Abilities.
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| You can take this special ability multiple times, each time selecting a new playbook.
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| ''Prerequisite'': To select a playbook, you need an action rating of one in each of its starting actions.''
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| ==== Powers ====
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| You can learn these powers, expending a Special Ability for each.
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| Your first Power Form must be one marked in <span style="background-color:lightgreen">green</span>, later you can pick any power.
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| [[Abyss Powers (FiD)|Abyss]],
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| [[Air Powers (FiD)|Air]],
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Animal Powers (FiD)|Animal]]</span>,
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| [[Barrier Powers (FiD)|Barrier]],
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Darkness Powers (FiD)|Darkness]]</span>,
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Death Powers (FiD)|Death]]</span>,
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| [[Earth Powers (FiD)|Earth]],
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| [[Electricity Powers (FiD)|Electricity]],
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| [[Fire Powers (FiD)|Fire]],
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| [[Ice Powers (FiD)|Ice]],
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Flux Powers (FiD)|Flux]]</span>,
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Illusion Powers (FiD)|Illusion]]</span>,
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| [[Kinesis Powers (FiD)|Kinesis]],
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Life Powers (FiD)|Life]]</span>,
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Light Powers (FiD)|Light]]</span>,
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| [[Metal Powers (FiD)|Metal]],
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Mind Powers (FiD)|Mind]]</span>,
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Order Powers (FiD)|Order]]</span>,
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| [[Plant Powers (FiD)|Plant]],
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| [[Space Powers (FiD)|Space]],
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| <span style="background-color:lightgreen">[[Time Powers (FiD)|Time]]</span>,
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| and [[Water Powers (FiD)|Water]].
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| === Strangers in the Night ===
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| : ˄ ˅ Celest, a bard.
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| : ˄ ˅ Haia, a mysterious heir.
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| : ˄ ˅ Kalli, an adventurous fan.
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| : ˄ ˅ Tam Tam, a crafter.
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| : ˄ ˅ Yagatan, an impressario.
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| === Inventory ===
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| : ☐,☐,☐ Fine Bottle of Wine.
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| : ◯ Memento.
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| : ◯ Scroll (Music Sheet).
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| : ◯ Stagewear.
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| * '''Fine Bottle of Wine''' ☐: A highly desirable vintage, effective at loosening tongues and making an impression.
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| * '''Memento''' ◯: A small personal item reminding you of your goals and passions. Reduces the stress cost of a power by one once per score, used after making the action roll. '''Playbook'''.
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| * '''Scroll''' ◯: A music sheet that allows one use of a power on the list of bard powers that you do not know. '''Playbook'''.
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| * '''Stagewear''' ◯: Elegant and provocative attire. Allows you to push any Resolve action roll (not just powers) at the cost of only one stress. You must carry no more than a light load and cannot use armor. Attracts attention. '''Conspicuous, Playbook'''.
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| === XP ===
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| * ''Every time you roll a desperate action, mark xp in that action's attribute.''
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| ''At the end of each session, for each item below, mark 1 xp (in your playbook or an attribute) or 2 xp if that item occurred multiple times.''
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| * ''You addressed a challenge using powers or your personal charm.''
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| * ''You expressed your beliefs, drives, heritage, or background.''
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| * ''You struggled with issues from your vice or traumas during the session.''
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| === Starting Actions ===
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| : Consort 1
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| : Sway 2
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| : 4 points by choice, no higher than 2 in any one.
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