How do you handle Bards in your games?

>>55329900
If there's a Bard (or equivalent) in the party I like to make sure that in the places the party travels to there are various holidays and festivals which they can participate in with their performance skills. Since my players like high fantasy I also usually make these holidays have actually supernatural effects on the world, like the day of the dead equivalent actually resulting in your ancestors showing up to talk to you. It makes for some interesting 'break' sessions.

What you've got to realize is that the clever cook puts unlikely things together, like duck and orange, like pineapple and ham. It's called 'artistry'. You know, I am an artist the way I combine my business and my pleasure: Money's my business, eating's my pleasure and Georgie's my pleasure, too, though in a more private kind of way than stuffing the mouth and feeding the sewers, though the pleasures are related because the naughty bits and the dirty bits are so close together that it just goes to show how eating and sex are related. Georgie's naughty bits are nicely related, aren't they, Georgie?

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>>55329900
Pic related.

>>55329900
In my games, b=bards have no magic, but if they learn magic as wizards, they can be magical bards. Barbarians of Lemuria...