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Did the stereotypical horniness of bards come up some time after development or where they part of the original fantasy/intended design?
Pre-internet it's tough to say what most people thought, but Dragon Magazine ran comic strips featuring a useless greedy thief (Fineous Fingers) and a "lawful stupid" paladin, but I can't ...
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Did the stereotypical horniness of bards come up some time after development or where they part of the original fantasy/intended design?
It's a joke that originated online rather than in D&D canon.
During the era when TSR published AD&D (1977 to 1997), there was an internal policy to avoid potentially offensive content, ...
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