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</td></tr></table>imported>Administratorhttp://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Skald&diff=429223&oldid=prev1d4chan>Nubnuber at 21:17, 27 September 20202020-09-27T21:17:00Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A '''skald''' is, in a nutshell, a [[Viking]] [[bard]]. In the real world, it was the title of a class of poet-composers popular in the halls of Norse cultures, mostly Scandinavian and Icelandic, who made their living by reciting epic sagas relating to heroes both historical and mythical, as there wasn't much of a difference between the two at the time. Mostly they were given money by the Norse leaders to compose poems to honor and commemorate the great deeds of those leaders.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A '''skald''' is, in a nutshell, a [[Viking]] [[bard]]. In the real world, it was the title of a class of poet-composers popular in the halls of Norse cultures, mostly Scandinavian and Icelandic, who made their living by reciting epic sagas relating to heroes both historical and mythical, as there wasn't much of a difference between the two at the time. Mostly they were given money by the Norse leaders to compose poems to honor and commemorate the great deeds of those leaders.</div></td></tr>
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</table>1d4chan>Nubnuberhttp://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Skald&diff=429232&oldid=prev1d4chan>Stephenlucas600 at 19:26, 18 September 20202020-09-18T19:26:21Z<p></p>
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</table>1d4chan>Stephenlucas600http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Skald&diff=429231&oldid=prev1d4chan>Agiletek at 20:34, 23 June 20192019-06-23T20:34:35Z<p></p>
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</table>1d4chan>Agiletekhttp://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Skald&diff=429230&oldid=prev76.17.247.143 at 00:22, 3 March 20192019-03-03T00:22:45Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Naturally, [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] tried to provide this as an option, once Bards stopped being an insane example of [[multiclassing]] in their own right. The skald first appeared as one of the bardic [[kits]] in The Complete Bards Handbook, where it was basically a more combat-capable bard, with increased weapon proficiency and a special "War Chant" buffing ability, although they're less good at the more thief-like abilities of the bard. The result is similar to, but different from, the Blade kit, which is more of a bardic [[swashbuckler]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Naturally, [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] tried to provide this as an option, once Bards stopped being an insane example of [[multiclassing]] in their own right. The skald first appeared as one of the bardic [[kits]] in The Complete Bards Handbook, where it was basically a more combat-capable bard, with increased weapon proficiency and a special "War Chant" buffing ability, although they're less good at the more thief-like abilities of the bard. The result is similar to, but different from, the Blade kit, which is more of a bardic [[swashbuckler]].</div></td></tr>
</table>76.17.247.143http://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Skald&diff=429229&oldid=prev1d4chan>Agiletek at 02:18, 13 November 20182018-11-13T02:18:11Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Subsequent editions moved away from directly referencing the idea, but it survives in the /tg/ lexicon as a shorthand name for the "[[Bard]]-[[Barbarian|barian]]" concept; a multiclassed Bard/Barbarian who can blend the bard's support role with greater melee combat ability. The blend isn't necessarily the most harmonious, but that's more an issue with [[multiclassing]] as a whole. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</del>Pathfinder<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' </del>ran with the concept, making the skald a bard/barbarian mix in the ''Advanced Class Guide'', which featured similar blent classes. It gets martial weapon/medium armor proficiencies, like a barbarian, but its signature power is a "rage song," which puts all listeners into barbarian rage. They even get a suite of rage powers they can apply to the song in the process.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Subsequent editions moved away from directly referencing the idea, but it survives in the /tg/ lexicon as a shorthand name for the "[[Bard]]-[[Barbarian|barian]]" concept; a multiclassed Bard/Barbarian who can blend the bard's support role with greater melee combat ability. The blend isn't necessarily the most harmonious, but that's more an issue with [[multiclassing]] as a whole. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>4th edition brought Skalds back as a whole new subclass for bards through their "Heroes of the [[Feywild]]" sourcebook. Hybrid Arcane/Martial Leaders, they have the ability to [[MAD|substitute Charisma for Strength when making one-handed melee weapon attacks]], gain some bonus Daily Bard powers, and have the Skald's Aura class power, which lets allies spend healing surges as a minor action 1/encounter. Plus, with how hybrid-classing worked, the "Bardbarian" was probably easier to pull off here than in 3rd edition.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>4th edition brought Skalds back as a whole new subclass for bards through their "Heroes of the [[Feywild]]" sourcebook. Hybrid Arcane/Martial Leaders, they have the ability to [[MAD|substitute Charisma for Strength when making one-handed melee weapon attacks]], gain some bonus Daily Bard powers, and have the Skald's Aura class power, which lets allies spend healing surges as a minor action 1/encounter. Plus, with how hybrid-classing worked, the "Bardbarian" was probably easier to pull off here than in 3rd edition.</div></td></tr>
</table>1d4chan>Agiletekhttp://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Skald&diff=429228&oldid=prev1d4chan>QuietBrowser at 22:33, 11 November 20182018-11-11T22:33:22Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Naturally, [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] tried to provide this as an option, once Bards stopped being an insane example of [[multiclassing]] in their own right. The skald first appeared as one of the bardic [[kits]] in The Complete Bards Handbook, where it was basically a more combat-capable bard, with increased weapon proficiency and a special "War Chant" buffing ability, although they're less good at the more thief-like abilities of the bard. The result is similar to, but different from, the Blade kit, which is more of a bardic [[swashbuckler]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Naturally, [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] tried to provide this as an option, once Bards stopped being an insane example of [[multiclassing]] in their own right. The skald first appeared as one of the bardic [[kits]] in The Complete Bards Handbook, where it was basically a more combat-capable bard, with increased weapon proficiency and a special "War Chant" buffing ability, although they're less good at the more thief-like abilities of the bard. The result is similar to, but different from, the Blade kit, which is more of a bardic [[swashbuckler]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Subsequent editions moved away from directly referencing the idea, but it survives in the /tg/ lexicon as a shorthand name for the "[[Bard]]-[[Barbarian|barian]]" concept; a multiclassed Bard/Barbarian who can blend the bard's support role with greater melee combat ability. The blend isn't necessarily the most harmonious, but that's more an issue with multiclassing as a whole. ''Pathfinder'' ran with the concept, making the skald a bard/barbarian mix in the ''Advanced Class Guide'', which featured similar blent classes. It gets martial weapon/medium armor proficiencies, like a barbarian, but its signature power is a "rage song," which puts all listeners into barbarian rage. They even get a suite of rage powers they can apply to the song in the process.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Subsequent editions moved away from directly referencing the idea, but it survives in the /tg/ lexicon as a shorthand name for the "[[Bard]]-[[Barbarian|barian]]" concept; a multiclassed Bard/Barbarian who can blend the bard's support role with greater melee combat ability. The blend isn't necessarily the most harmonious, but that's more an issue with <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>multiclassing<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>as a whole. ''Pathfinder'' ran with the concept, making the skald a bard/barbarian mix in the ''Advanced Class Guide'', which featured similar blent classes. It gets martial weapon/medium armor proficiencies, like a barbarian, but its signature power is a "rage song," which puts all listeners into barbarian rage. They even get a suite of rage powers they can apply to the song in the process.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>4th edition brought Skalds back as a whole new subclass for bards through their "Heroes of the [[Feywild]]" sourcebook. Hybrid Arcane/Martial Leaders, they have the ability to [[MAD|substitute Charisma for Strength when making one-handed melee weapon attacks]], gain some bonus Daily Bard powers, and have the Skald's Aura class power, which lets allies spend healing surges as a minor action 1/encounter. Plus, with how hybrid-classing worked, the "Bardbarian" was probably easier to pull off here than in 3rd edition.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>4th edition brought Skalds back as a whole new subclass for bards through their "Heroes of the [[Feywild]]" sourcebook. Hybrid Arcane/Martial Leaders, they have the ability to [[MAD|substitute Charisma for Strength when making one-handed melee weapon attacks]], gain some bonus Daily Bard powers, and have the Skald's Aura class power, which lets allies spend healing surges as a minor action 1/encounter. Plus, with how hybrid-classing worked, the "Bardbarian" was probably easier to pull off here than in 3rd edition.</div></td></tr>
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</table>1d4chan>QuietBrowserhttp://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Skald&diff=429227&oldid=prev1d4chan>SpectralTime at 23:18, 9 April 20172017-04-09T23:18:56Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Subsequent editions moved away from directly referencing the idea, but it survives in the /tg/ lexicon as a shorthand name for the "[[Bard]]-[[Barbarian|barian]]" concept; a multiclassed Bard/Barbarian who can blend the bard's support role with greater melee combat ability. The blend isn't necessarily the most harmonious, but that's more an issue with multiclassing as a whole.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Subsequent editions moved away from directly referencing the idea, but it survives in the /tg/ lexicon as a shorthand name for the "[[Bard]]-[[Barbarian|barian]]" concept; a multiclassed Bard/Barbarian who can blend the bard's support role with greater melee combat ability. The blend isn't necessarily the most harmonious, but that's more an issue with multiclassing as a whole<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. ''Pathfinder'' ran with the concept, making the skald a bard/barbarian mix in the ''Advanced Class Guide'', which featured similar blent classes. It gets martial weapon/medium armor proficiencies, like a barbarian, but its signature power is a "rage song," which puts all listeners into barbarian rage. They even get a suite of rage powers they can apply to the song in the process</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A '''skald''' is a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">viking </del>bard. In /tg/ <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">community, skald is usually understood </del>as a [[Bard]]-[[Barbarian|barian]] / bard that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">can be badass in melee and still be useful </del>as a "<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">support" instead </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">standing behind </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">frontlines like a sissy</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">For example</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">3.PF </del>class <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">called Skald that inspires rage in his buddies and isn't as squishy </del>as a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">regular bard</del>. [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition|D&D 5e]] has a Valor bard subclass which <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is </del>along <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these </del>lines <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as well</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A '''skald''' is<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, in a nutshell, </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Viking]] [[</ins>bard<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>. In <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the real world, it was the title of a class of poet-composers popular in the halls of Norse cultures, mostly Scandinavian and Icelandic, who made their living by reciting epic sagas relating to cultural heroes, both historical and mythical, and at the time there wasn't much of a difference between the two. Mostly they were given money by the Norse leaders to compose poems to honor and commemorate the great deeds of those leaders.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Naturally, [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] tried to provide this as an option, once Bards stopped being an insane example of [[multiclassing]] in their own right. The skald first appeared as one of the bardic [[kits]] in The Complete Bards Handbook, where it was basically a more combat-capable bard, with increased weapon proficiency and a special "War Chant" buffing ability, although they're less good at the more thief-like abilities of the bard. The result is similar to, but different from, the Blade kit, which is more of a bardic [[swashbuckler]].</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Subsequent editions moved away from directly referencing the idea, but it survives in the </ins>/tg/ <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lexicon </ins>as a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shorthand name for the "</ins>[[Bard]]-[[Barbarian|barian]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" concept; a multiclassed Bard</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Barbarian who can blend the </ins>bard<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s support role with greater melee combat ability. The blend isn't necessarily the most harmonious, but </ins>that<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s more an issue with multiclassing as a whole.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">4th edition brought Skalds back </ins>as a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">whole new subclass for bards through their </ins>"<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Heroes </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Feywild]]" sourcebook</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hybrid Arcane/Martial Leaders, they have the ability to [[MAD|substitute Charisma for Strength when making one-handed melee weapon attacks]], gain some bonus Daily Bard powers</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and have the Skald</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Aura </ins>class <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">power, which lets allies spend healing surges </ins>as a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">minor action 1/encounter. Plus, with how hybrid-classing worked, the "Bardbarian" was probably easier to pull off here than in 3rd edition</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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