Bards

Creatures theme

Musical and poetic entertainers who in fiction often are skilled fighters and in some instances even adepts at magical arts. Often depicted as swashbuckling heroes and jacks-of-all-trades.

games

platforms

Alternate names: Skalds, Warrior poets

Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir

WIN 2008-11-18

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

WIN 2011-11-11

Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer

WIN 2007-10-09

Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear

WIN 2016-03-31

Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition

WIN 2013-11-15

Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide

WIN 2003-06-17

Neverwinter Nights 2

WIN 2006-10-31

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

WIN 2013-01-16

Baldur's Gate

WIN 1998-12-21

Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast

WIN 1999-05-05

Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal

WIN 2001-06-21

Neverwinter Nights 2

OSX 2008-05

Quoted from original main description:
In medieval Gaelic and British culture a bard was a professional poet, employed by a patron, such as a monarch or nobleman, to commemorate the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.

Parent group

NPC occupations

Games by year

The first Bards video game was released in 1998.

Atari, Beamdog and Bethesda Softworks published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows		15
Linux		10
Mac OS X		6
BeOS		1
MS-DOS		1
Zeebo		1
X360		1
PS3		1

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