Lvl 20

>>50638762
Superstar

>>50638762

Diva

>>50638762

a level 20 monk is Goku

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>>50638762
> Level 20 Bard.

>>50638762
A lvl 20 investigator is batman

>>50638855
He's not dead, he's just ascended to a higher plane.

>>50638762
>Hercules
That's a literal demi-god.

>>50639283

By the time you hit 20 you have the same stats as one.

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>>50638762
Orpheus was the level twentiest bard ever

>>50639327
> Not surpassing all of creation by level six.

It's like you faggots don't even Pun Pun the Kobold.

>>50638762
Halford
Lenny Killmister
Freddy Mercury
Any other dude who can gather a full stadium and 4 more stadiums worth of people standing outside

>>50639360
I made pun-pun a god in my setting. He slaps your shit when you try to pull stupid shit.

>>50639359
sauce on this comic? the art is rad and reverse search aint helping

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>>50639391
I'm not sure if it's from an actual comic or if it just has the style of one, I got the file from a character art thread a while back

>>50639377
Must be a popular idea I heard it from a friend of a friends game and now I use punpun as the God of meta gameing and he smites you for non leathal damage when you pull shit.

>>50639490
fucking rad pic

>>50638762
Eddy Rigs

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>>50638762
lvl 20 bard

AND HERE WE AAAAAAREEEE
WE'RE THE PRINCES OF THE UNIVERSE
HERE WE BELONG
FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL
WE'VE COME TO THE BE THE RULERS OF YOUR WOOOOOOOOORLD!

I AM IMMORTAL
I HAVE INSIDE ME BLOOD OF KINGS
I HAVE NO RIVAL
NO MAN CAN BE MY EQUAL

>>50638762
Tom Bombadil

>>50639962
Druid, quite linked to his realm.

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A level 20 bard is incredibly skilled in a few specialized skills, as well as impressive at quite anything they try.
They can warp the world both by striking chords with the music of creation and overwriting it with their legendary prose and willpower.
They can inspire the greatest of strength in the lowliest of individuals, or propel fellow heroes to unparalleled feats.
For all of the glorification of idols of music and rock 'n' roll, none quite match up to the worldly and supernatural might of an epic bard.

>>50639995
druid/cleric multi class. he is heavily dependent on his domain of literally not giving a fuck, otherwise is powerless.

>>50640063
As for a level 20 investigator, consider Sherlock Holmes. He spots every detail, and uses them to compose information out of things others would totally miss. Scale this up to even more superhuman levels- his bare eyes spot a specific sort of pollen off an alchemical flower or familiar's hair caught on the coat of someone 5 yards away, which immediately clicks among their vast library of knowledge. A quick reference in a book (Which they know is the 8th one in the 3rd stack in the 6th drawer in the left cupboard in the tea room; they know their own organization system by heart despite it seeming random to the untrained eye) they cross reference it specifically, and recall everywhere in the city a match might be.
During this time, he's presumably attacked by some sort of enemy thug or hitman, which he easily dispatches by identifying the region of streets in which they learned their fighting style and summarily dodging, immediately notice the favored right leg due to a childhood injury, and use a pen he had on the desk to incapacitate him in a very calculated strike to a pressure point just beside the jugular. Good thing he used his other hand to grab his tea before the unconscious body knocked it over.

>>50638762
Michael Jackson or Elvis.

A level 20 bard can re-enact Macross even with culturally prepared opponents.

>>50638861
Nope, a lvl 20 vigilante is batman.

>>50641962
At what level did he start thinking that dressing like a bat was a good idea?

A trickster demigod

>>50638762
In which system?

>>50638861
No, gestalt everything level 20 is batman

>>50638762
A dead man, probably. Have you noticed that all the greatest musicians went out at the peak of their glory?

>>50642080
Michael jackson lasted a while and rolf harris is still about.

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>>50640117

>>50638762
what about a level 20 warlock?

>>50643076
He replaces his patron

>>50642080

That's because we inhabit the Late Musicians universe.

>>50638762
David Bowie

either from Labyrinth or real life

>>50638762
A level 20 bard is the father to the next generation.

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>>50638762

>>50638789
>>50638798
>>50639725

A musical bard is a celebrity, their compositions and songs known throughout their realm of influence even if they write under a pseudonym.

>>50643336
Or a fantastic seductror/ess.

>>50640063
Or a master of the magic of music, not as an art for performance, but as a path to power in the music of the cosmos itself.
For the sort I haven't seen in here yet, a bard at level 20 might never actually be seen, heard of, or known at all. They lie, they cheat, they steal, they sneak, and shape the future with little changes with enormous ramifications. A ruinous affair destroys a king and queen's love, and the kingdom within the years after. A relic goes missing and an empire falls. A young sorcerer is kidnapped, and an arch-lich founds a horrible legacy in the following decades.

Not the person who accomplishes amazing things; at least not by anyone else's reckoning, but they play a game on scales with dragons and demons, century-long competitions with mortal pawns and pieces.

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>>50643443
>>50638762
But OP, there's something to consider here. Level 20 is not the end. It is the benchmark.

When a wizard is level 19, reaching 20th, they have mastered all that can be done within the context of the base class itself. A fighter can handle anything in the base-line bestiaries, wrestling dragons to the ground or slaying giants with a sword in hand and naught else. A rogue at 20th level can kill with a needle and breach any lock or wall. A 20th level Cleric has ascended, at least to their knowledge, to the highest position in their clergy, even if it is not officially recognized.


But then they reach level 21. It might be a Mythic rank, or a truely Epic ascension, but the change in what it means to be 20th level and 21st is the same as when you first look up to the stars and understand how many worlds there are out there; that there may well be objects travelling at near-light speed toward your world and there would be little you could ever hope to do about it.

Reaching level 20 is to be a legend among mortals and a child among the immortal cosmos that shaped your existence. You have finally reached so high as to find out exactly how small your universe is in comparison to the universe you didn't know.

A 20th level Fighter breaks sieges by his own might, skill and experience. A 21st level fighter understands why the siege must hold, for without that bastion fortified and in place next year the entire continent will be overrun when the vampiric progenitor awakens, and so strikes down a giant not as part of the battle, but to strike fear into the heart of every Soldier Sargent and Secretary General so that their people, on both sides, might have a chance to stand against the oncoming darkness.

To reach 20th level is to be a myth. To be 21st is to be the things on which myths are based, lost to the ages and the mists of time.

>>50643443
A 20th level bard would be known even outside there plane of existence
They would be asked to play when visiting ysgard

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A lvl 20 bard essentially controls a realm's culture. He controls the political and cultural narratives, the way people think of themselves and others.

A lvl 20 fighter might be able to kill whoever he wants. But a lvl 20 bard decides what people are willing to die for.

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>>50638762
Level 20 investigator is BBC Sherlock

>>50639614
Its from 4.0e Monster Manual. Skeleton, Infernal Skeleton (I am not sure of this), Fire Skeleton, and Decrepit Skeleton.

>>50643409
This. My 2nd level bard is already controlling a town by brainwashing and influencing people with bluff, diplomacy, and intimidation. The bard was even successful in deceiving the local NPC paladin to fall from grace and begin to follow the bard as an incarnation of the forgotten deity of peace, love, and beauty.

>Investigator 20
James Bond

>Bard 20
Dethklok

>>50644391
>James Bond
That seems a bit underpowered for a level 20.

>>50644424
Invincible super-spy killing machine who is a master of every skill from cybersecurity to downhill skiing? Sounds right to me.

>>50644542
>Invincible
Except when he gets defeated. How else does he keep ending up in all the death traps?
The current Bond didn't even pass the secret agent test.

>>50644542
How many times did he get beaten up by Jaws again? He's good at lots of things, but hardly invincible.

>>50644542
>cybersecurity

Has Bond ever actually been shown as being good at computers? As in, using his own skills rather than just inserting some Q-Branch Hack-O-Matic gadget.

>>50644618
But in the end, he always escapes and wins, no matter how high the odds are stacked against him. Just like a PC!

>>50644679
Use Magic (Plot) Device!

>>50644686
He's clearly a PC, but not a level 20 PC. More like around level 10 or low teens.

>>50639360
>Not becoming greater than creation at level one
What kind of unoptimized trash build are you using?

>>50644686
But he often survives based on luck and circumstance, not competence and skill.

Bond isn't particularly high-level, he just has a very lenient DM.

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>>50644159

Isn't Luthor BBC Sherlock though?

>>50644391
Deathklok is clearly Scald 20

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>>50643559
Capped

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what is the best system for having bardic music actualy powerfull and not just aoe buffs?

I want musical magic to cause all those within earshot to be forced to boogie down. victims should be forced to dance and sing backup for certain parts of songs.

bardic songs should me more than just an mass AOE suggestion. Imagine doing a cover of thriller to litteraly summon a leigon of undead and turn people into ghouls and goblins.


There should also be lots of side-effects attached to bardic songs, basically casting lower teir spells automatically. fire spells for pyrotechnic displays and burning enimes. dancing lights for lazer shows. illusion magic to take the appearance of famous musicians from other worlds and times and provide other set peices for full blown AMVs in the middle of battles


the closest I can think of is the pied pier from the shrek movies. come to think of it they also kinda did the thriller thing


A single bard can mass suggestion a few dozen people, but if an entire band of bards join in it can turn an entire battlefield into a concert with both sides shaking their booties.

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>>50643559

>>50641966
When he realized criminals are a cowardly and superstitious lot.

>>50644159
>Moffat in a nutshel

>>50646550
>what is the best system for having bardic music actualy powerful
Heavy metal.

>>50638762
>But what's a level 20 Bard?
Freddie Mercury without HIV
David Bowie with real immortality

>>50643559
Now I want to reach level 22.

>>50644998
> this chick didn't yawn, therefore she's the killer
> I'll walk up to an armed murderer while all his shots miss somehow, then we play russian roulette and I'll win somehow

Not very smart, more of a blunderer that gets lucky. But I stopped watching after season 1 maybe it gets better.

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>>50638762
I think Scheherazade stands out as an example of a legendary bard. "The Bard," William Shakespeare, would be another. One literally staved-off her own death with the power of her tales, the other still has his tales retold 400 years after his death.

>>50639359
>Could charm even rocks with his music
>Went to hell to get his beloved back
>"You can leave here with her, but you can't look back to see her until you get out of hell, start walking."
>He looks back out of paranoia she isn't there

He's an example why bard's shouldn't dump wis.

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>>50647074
>David Bowie
>Freddie Mercury
>level 20 bard

ahahaha

howdy Reddit

>>50644074
There's an American Gods comic?

>>50644762
So he's the guy who whinges at the DM and the DM let's it fly because he's not going to pause the game to explain how lasers work, and then actually rolls well on all of his "let me try this *thing that shouldn't work, but is cool*?

>>50647991
Oh, please, tell us all about how superior your tastes are and how you only listen to true patrician music that we mere plebes cannot understand.

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>>50646372
>Being a level 21 Fighter means having a brain.
Man, fighters never get the good stuff.

>>50647991
You're the one shitposting

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>>50643193
Stealing this so hard.

>>50648002
No. It's fanart. The upcoming show looks decent, though.

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>>50638762
charlie chaplin would be a 20 bard i guess

>>50649808
famous all over the world and his acts can sway the fate of nations, and dominate public opinion

>>50649808
What does that make Buster Keaton?

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>>50643559
This guy knows what's up
That was somehow kind of inspiring, just happen to be playing a fighter.

The DM fiat character.

>>50638762
>A level 20 wizard is basically a demigod
>A level 20 bard _makes_ demigods.

>>50643559
Anon, have you ever been summoned for a Grail War?

>>50648713
Not that dude, but I'd agree that Mercury isn't a good example of a top-tier bard. When you think of a level 20 bard, that is an actor, musician, composer, et cetera that is so influential and has a technical mastery like none other that they're basically mythical in terms of skill.

Consider Robert Johnson, whose Delta Blues performances are often hailed as the beginning of the blues -- a man so good at his craft and so innovative that people remarked that he must've made a deal with the devil.

On a more technical mastery level, look at Charlie Christian or Django Reinhardt, with the latter's music bringing the rise of gypsy jazz and whose single-line soloing completely revamped a guitar's place in a band.

Buddy Holly, Link Ray, Eddie Cochran -- the people who Elvis built his legacy on top of -- those dudes are level 20 musicians. Bowie was interesting and influential, but nowhere near the level of other titans of music.

>>50643193
>>50643076

ohhhhh... Plot twist!? That's what the patron was aiming for all along?

>>50638762
He's the concept of cult of personality given a physical form.

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>>50653911
I am DMing a campaign with a party that started ECL3 and is currently around 22, having gone from simple hack'n'slash one-shot, to boss-rush-loot-grab, to revenge quest, to civilization builder, to warring empires, and now to cloak and dagger shadowrun antics in space.

The one before that started at 30 and ran to 35. It's a very different game past 20

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>>50648828
Eh, even at 20 it takes a bit more brain than brawn to solo an army. The difference wasn't supposed to be the thought process but rather the knowledge of things bigger than the wars being fought.

I can't believe no one considered the question as an example of an epic investigator, possibly more so than batman.

>>50644159
I'm pretty sure that /tv/ doesn't like it because tumblr and because it's popular and because it's an echo box but that explanation is quite good too !

>>50654061
Well I'm not sure, the thing with bards isn't that they're good musicians or actors or anything else, it's that they get others to love them. And we look at your list well maybe they changed music, but except for some of them they weren't that famous or only in small groups of people who knows what they talk about.
But when you look at Freddy Mercury and David Bowie, everybody knows them and most of those who know them love them ! People are crazy with them in a way that is just out of fucking reason you know ?

>>50639391
I assume it's a picture of "Orpheus" have you tried using that in conjunction with the picture?

>>50657127
Well if it have anything to do with Orpheus then some things changed since the last time I checked

>>50654180
Nice to meet you, Darth Bane.

>>50654061
>>50657113
And I'm pretty sure that any real human musician or actor would be a bad example for a level 20 anything because level 20s are supposed to be superhuman.
OP counted Hercules for the fighter, not Muhammad Ali or Bruce Lee.

A bard level 20 should have abilities beyond filling a few stadiums. He or she should be a strategic-level weapon.

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>>50638762
>what's a level 20 Bard?

>>50657416
The poster reminds me of 6String Samurai.

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>>50642080
>Have you noticed that all the greatest musicians went out at the peak of their glory?

They're not all done yet.

>>50638810
Depending, he could be kenshiro

>>50638810
How strong even is Goku nowadays?

>>50644159
Damn, stuff like that is why I come to 4chan. It's simply brilliant.

>>50657446
I fucking hate that film

>main ability is to get people to love you
>not being the leader of a country

Level 20 bard should be running the show at that point

>>50659249
Precrisis superman levels

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>>50638762
>But what's a level 20 Bard

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>>50638762
A level 20 Bard becomes a deus ex machina

>>50659249
he had a fight with a God of Destruction and their colliding blows sent shock waves though the universe that increase in power the farther they go. It destroyed planets and threatened to destroy the whole universe if the weren't careful about nullifying each other's shock waves. He's gotten even stronger since, and he's fused with Vegeta again which results in more than double that power.

>>50663781
Does the show still take itself seriously at all? That sounds like it might be fun if it acknowledges that it's become unabashed power-level wankery.

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>>50664318
>it's become unabashed power-level wankery.
>become
Have I fallen into a time rift back to the 90's or something? Or did you just discover Dragonball last week?
You have to be 18 to post here.

>>50664318
>unabashed power-level wankery.
That's exactly what dbz is though. It's the primary reason why vs discussions are fucking cancer

>>50664318
>Does the show still take itself seriously at all?
>still
Did it ever?

>>50664371
>>50664399
>>50664416
I know it's "always" been power level wankery. From what I remember it was still kinda serious about it and tried to pretend that the power levels involved were reasonable.

>>50664504

Power levels stopped making sense once they got to Namek man. And Toriyama himself said they didn't mean anything, IIRC.

>>50638762
>But what's a level 20 Bard?
A level 10 bard. You got played, OP.

>>50664641
I'm not talking about "power levels" as they refer to in the show. Just the idea of how every threat escalates.

>>50663105
epic

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Level 20 Fighter

Hm. Would Prometheus be a good example for a 20+ rogue?

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>>50665779
Forgot pic.

>>50638762
A combination of Mike Rowe from that dirty jobs show (he started in Opera) and Freddie Mercury.

>>50659249
He's practically on the cusp of godhood.

That being said, the god of destruction can pretty much just bat him around like he's nothing. The running statement for the series is that while Goku and Vegeta keep getting stronger, they'll never manage to surpass the new established strongest characters (the God of Destruction and his attending angel).

>>50665863
>The running statement for the series is that while Goku and Vegeta keep getting stronger, they'll never manage to surpass the new established strongest characters
Yeah, fifty bucks says that's not going to last.

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>>50665863

>The running statement for the series is that while Goku and Vegeta keep getting stronger, they'll never manage to surpass the new established strongest characters (the God of Destruction and his attending angel).

They are literally training to become gods. The only thing absolute that has been established is the King of Alls power to annihilate everything.

Which kinda makes Beerus job fucking pointless. Though then again DBs universe is very much inspired by chinese mythology, specifically the "celestial beaurocracy". I mean, fuck, being the boss of the afterlife is literally a deskjob.

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>>50638762
>level 20 Bard
Why won't you listen to my song?

>>50666127
It's funny to think that Dragonball is really just one guy's slow ascension from Level 1 to 999.

>>50666189

Except that it is. Maybe not for Goku and Vegeta since theyre mortals and might not live long enough to get to true divine levels but even Beerus was trained to be as strong as he is.

Stop inventing absolutes where there are none.

>>50666248
Haa yikes pal, you're takin' this lame serious

>>50665779
There must have been a lot of alcohol involved in that session. You know you need to get the game back under control when the thief says something like
>I steal the fire.
As a player you know you own the goddamn game if the GM laughs and then just goes along with it.

>>50665469
The problem is that he has multiple weapons and fighters, who should be casey jones motherfuckers with something for any occasion, have traditionally been forced to specialize into one weapon or another because of feats and treasure

>>50667294
The stuff on his back is loot. He can't even draw half of them in any reasonable frame of time.

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>>50638762
I'm surprised no one has suggested this guy. A level 20 Bard has enough charisma to make people do and believe just about anything.

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A level 20 Monk is difficult to imagine.

A person dedicating themselves to their own personal, physical perfection isn't hard to understand, but the dedication to Continue in that path after reaching level 10 and likely seeing, first-hand, that much of what you are trying to accomplish is irrelevant in comparison to your likewise-experienced peers. To see that you will struggle to accomplish things that others have done with less experience, meeker tools, and less effort.

The technique of the Abundant Step, allowing you to step between spaces without stepping upon them....was available to your spellcasting companions some time ago when they reached their fourth circles of magic. Your strength of arms, shattering foes....accomplished with martial practice in weapons forged and wrathful force.

But they continue. The others may wonder why exactly, even as they see bare hands destroy bones and blades and stones, but some monks do not branch from their studies. They do not learn true-names to change theirs and gain power. They do not spend time with the sorcerer to travel the path of the Enlightened Fist or Abjurant Champion.

They practice. Every day. Even fights for their lives are little but another routine after a while. They move close, they unleash a rapid assault of kicks, punches or other painstakingly perfected process of pummeling and move on.

They reach 20th level. All of their now inherent defenses are tokens and trinkets upon their allies. Their fists are deadly but so is every glint of metal or glamorously crafted wooden masterpiece.

There are but a few places in which the Monk reminds anyone of why their orders even exist anymore.

In the Concordant plane there is a spire, and the party's quarry is at its base. The mages think naught of the distance, and teleport their comrades....short of their destination. They arrive hundreds of miles away. They are shaken, but press on; time is short.

>>50668425
It's almost like people dedicate their lives to becoming monks for reasons other than martial prowess.
Who'd have thought?

Also, your image shows a very nice example of somebody who had a very good reason to go through it all (besides the fact that he was so gifted he went through the whole training within a few days) because he wanted to become immortal.

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>>50668425
The summoned mounts falter next. The mages are distraught, realizing that their spells will become less and less available, and that the enemy's last holdout is one in which they have no power whatsoever. They depart, vowing to make creatures and weapons that can withstand the plane's strange properties, but can offer little else, and know that they will need to stretch time itself to even contribute any further.

The rest push forward, riding double on the ranger's great tiger, the cavalier's steed, and the druids roc companion; the last knows they will be little help on their own, but refuses to leave their friends to face this foe, or to die anywhere but their companion's side.

They slow down still 100 miles away. The enchanted horse-shoes, the belts of swiftness and the boots of striding and springing all becoming little more than meticulously crafted works of art; valuable, beautiful....but no longer powerful as they were but moments ago.

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Imagine a whole society of bards
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uDge3-JsJ0A

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>>50668524
At the base of the spire, the party is weak, weary and even wounded by their trek. The ever-full cups and bountiful feasts to which they had become accustomed denied by the nature of their foe's abode. Rations sparingly spread out over days of rushed marches, bringing back memories of their first adventures. The Warrior's many weapons do not gleam, his armor now too heavy to wear without its strength-augmenting enchantments. The Paladin's holy sword holds no sway nor faith here. Here, these legends and myths are little but men. Mortal, flawed as always, and deprived.

But one, perhaps two among them stand undeterred.

Their foe is some variety of sword-saint. A simple metal spike is all they need to be deadly.

He is alone, however. His efforts to prepare come to naught. He takes two or three life-long friends away from them before he falls, struck down between a paragon of Discipline and an exemplar of Unbridled Freedom.

They leave, a measure of respect for each other's very different paths in life leading them to become something more. Perhaps some others might think they lament the loss of what they once were; that mortal foibles of need and imperfection were what made them people rather than a force of nature or a physical manifestation of a code.

To the Monk, who only ever becomes faster, stronger, and more resilient with each confrontation....they have no time to be human anymore. Their path is set, and with this glimpse of what the future may hold and what this one foe was the harbinger of, it will only be a matter of time until the things and forces on which so many others have come to rely on may be diminished, and much lost for it.

The Berserker simply cannot wait for this one enemy's masters to arrive, so that their ire may be conveyed in a clear, concise fashion to which they will briefly have the chance to become accustomed to.

>>50654180
Patron is trapped and needs an entity who's power matches their own to swap places with

>>50666127
Zen-oh doesn't make Beerus obsolete. They operate on entirely different levels of the playing field.

A God of Destruction is the balance to the Kaioshins, who are in charge of creation and maintaining the universe for living beings.

Zen-oh is powerful enough to blow everything away, but that's not his job. His job is to be the absolute ruler over every universe; he can be merciful, but they chose to play up how destructive he can be in order to make a strong point in establishing the pecking order when he was introduced.
In the most recent arc, he destroyed that one universe because all of the beaurocracy in that universe below his level had been absolutely fucked and no one else was going to be able to fix what was going on. It was a situation that entirely called for his intervention. Since it would only get worse if he did nothing, he just purged all of it.

>>50649876
A mute.

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>>50654061
>that is so influential and has a technical mastery like none other that they're basically mythical in terms of skill.

That...describes Freddie Mercury pretty well. How many countless singers in the past 30 years have all listed Queen as their major influence? Even to this day - Lady Gaga takes her name from her favorite Queen song ("Radio Gaga").

The man could control a crowd like few other people could. Myths are told about how one Queen concert was so big that you could actually SEE sound - see a slight ripple in the air when the whole crowd clapped in unison.

Hell, kind of like Jesus and Buddha, Freddieisn't even known by his real name. Maybe one man in a hundred knows that his real name was Faroukh Bulsara, that he was of Persian extraction and wasn't even born in Britain, but rather in Zanzibar (a place that doesn't even properly exist anymore), and that he was Zoroastrian.

The point being that using Freddie, or at least the myth surrounding Freddie, as a touchstone for what a level 20 Bard should be like, isn't a bad starting point.

>>50667294
Casey Jones always felt underappreciated. Still the best from the old series.

>>50666127
He can nuke everything.
Beerus is a more precise instrument.

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>>50646550
I'm actually really enjoying Pillars of Eternity right now and I wish Bards were more like Chanters.

Chanters have a set of Phrases that come in tiers--Level 1 Phrases, Level 2 Phrases, etc.--which all provide passive bonuses. Increased AC, increased ranged attack speed, morale drain, health drain on foes, whatever. Phrases have a Duration, but then continue to Linger for a time afterward; you get the full effect of a Phrase for the entire Duration as well as while it Lingers, but you're free to begin the next Phrase while the first Lingers, allowing you to chain and combine a variety of different bonuses.

Chanting does not interrupt or stall any other action. You can Chant just as well while stabbing a fucker in the front line as you can standing in the back line shooting arrows or doing nothing at all.

Finally, Chanters have their own small collection of Spells. Rather than Spell Slots like other casters have, they require a certain number of Phrases chanted. 1st Level Spells require 3 Phrases chanted, 2nd Level Spells require 4, and so on. These can have a variety of effects, like summoning creatures to fight for you, blasting nearby enemies off their feet, paralyzing enemies in a cone, increasing the physical stats of your party, whatever.