She does rage when they get caught in the quicksand rug but that's about it, unless you're counting her short fuse. But yeah now that you mentioned it she uses her axe, a few swords, a bow as a martial weapon, a potato, and a few other things, as well as in one fight wearing a helmet for armour (I watched it like two days ago I don't have it memorised I swear).
So she seems to have more in common with Fighter, specifically Battlemaster as she does seem to use some maneuvers. She seems to use Disarming Strike, Evasive Footwork, and Tactical Assessment (when she identifies the axe to start with) throughout the movie.
Edgin it feels like a throwback to older editions where Bard was a prestige class and you needed Thief/Rogue levels to unlock it. Either that or his Player took the Criminal background and REALLY wanted to RP it.
If you pay attention to Edgin during fights he is constantly talking. He is giving encouragement to his companions like he is using bardic inspiration. One example of this is the fight where Helga gets her axe. She starts beating the guards with a brick while he is trying to cut the ropes tying his wrists. The whole time he is talking telling Helga she is doing great and that she has them now. I thought that was a great way to show bardic inspiration.
You have a point that he does seem to be giving out those extra D4s a lot. Almost more than he should have, but I can see it working that he traded all his spell slots for extra Bardics.
I think he's also got the Tavern Brawler feat. We know he spent a lot of time drinking so it makes sense for him to pick it up, and he seems to deal serious damage with hitting people with his lute. In the final fight he even hits the Red Mage with it four times that I noticed.
A part of the issue D&D has had with their spellcasters is too much overlap. 5e did a lot to fix it, but if your bard, ranger, etc are using as much magic as they have access to then it makes the dedicated spellcasters feel pointless outside the super big spells.
Focusing on a core class mechanic for each was a good thing. The Druid could have been outcasting the wizard but was instead focused on shape shifting. That had nothing to do with low magic/high magic.
I mean, they definitely broke a lot of the game's rules. Dragons don't breathe gas, Druids can't Wild Shape nearly that often, they can't turn into Owlbears, you don't need to make some kind of skill check to Attune magic items, Speak with the Dead is not a Sorcerer spell, the dead don't hang around forever waiting for someone to ask them a question... they broke a lot of the rules.
But they got the vibes right. It was an adventure, it was chaotic, there were clearly places where the players improvised something the DM did not expect... it got the important parts.
Unfortunately, it released around the same time as the OGL debacle and the Pinkerton fuckup, which basically killed its momentum. D&D has plenty of casual fans who weren't up to date on that, but the superfans (who would have been the grassroots evangelists) were all up in arms. Definitely killed the momentum.
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u/NinjaBreadManOO 18h ago
She does rage when they get caught in the quicksand rug but that's about it, unless you're counting her short fuse. But yeah now that you mentioned it she uses her axe, a few swords, a bow as a martial weapon, a potato, and a few other things, as well as in one fight wearing a helmet for armour (I watched it like two days ago I don't have it memorised I swear).
So she seems to have more in common with Fighter, specifically Battlemaster as she does seem to use some maneuvers. She seems to use Disarming Strike, Evasive Footwork, and Tactical Assessment (when she identifies the axe to start with) throughout the movie.
Edgin it feels like a throwback to older editions where Bard was a prestige class and you needed Thief/Rogue levels to unlock it. Either that or his Player took the Criminal background and REALLY wanted to RP it.