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In D&D the best class is the bard. Reason being it’s the only class that has music. Sadly, there’s only one class like that! There is a tattoed monk, but there’s no tattooed bard, and there’s certainly no tattooed rapper… Though commenting on why this is the case is outside the scope of this article, I am inclined to do a bit of an investigation into what the differences between a bard and a rapper might be.

The first difference that strikes me is that the rapper has philosophy, but their philosophy comes from their rap. Whereas the bard, as often specializing in an instrument, has philosophy too, but seperate from their instrumentation.

One fun question is whether or not their is a type of bard that specializes in song that derives their philosophy from their song.

Another deeply fun idea is what a multiclass bard rapper might be like. My assumption is that they would derive their philosophy both from rap and from outside of it.

Certainly an obvious point is that a bard is an older incarnation of the musical hero than the rapper. The bard might specialize in martial arts in terms of combat whereas the rapper might have a gun.

What’s the moral of the story? D&D doesn’t have enough musical hero classes! Why is that the case? Because of a lack of integration of the knowledge content with the universal musical mind.

Check out Bill Evans’ documentary: The Creative Process and Self-Teaching.