Guys, I hate to disturb you with such an unimportant question, but I really need to know: by “pipes” in the bard’s…

19 thoughts on “Guys, I hate to disturb you with such an unimportant question, but I really need to know: by “pipes” in the bard’s…”

1. “Pipes” normally refers to bagpipes/uilleann pipes. Flutes are normally just flutes.

2. Pipes can be “flutes” too, see

   http://www.magicspoiler.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Satyr-Piper-Theros-Spoiler.jpg

3. I took for given that pipes was a shorthand for bagpipes, but then I saw this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_%28instrument%29

   now, one could argue that “pipes” means bagpipes and “pipe” means something like a flute.

4. I took it to mean something more like pan-pipes, myself!

5. so “the bard decides” is actually the one and only true answer to the question. Awww, I both hate and love at the same these untranslatable gems.

6. Tim Franzke: good point (although over here, satyrs use pan flutes :P); there’s also the pied piper, I guess.

   Alessandro Gianni: I am guessing the ambiguity is there on purpose, to give the Bard more options… so just put all of them in the options (bagpipe, elbow pipe, pan flute, shepherd’s pipe).

7. Well there are chanter only bagpipes without drones, those would be a pipe too. Just saying.

   (If you want to know bagpipe stuff, ask me)

8. Yeah, I assumed pan-pipes as well myself, without even thinking that bagpipes were an option! Now I know what my next DW PC is going to be.

9. Yep. Pan pipes is probably the one I think of the most, but we left it open to all of the above.

10. “Pipes” is also slang where I’m from for vocal chords. Like “oh man that guys got a set of pipes.”

    But if you are referring to something in the equipment section then this would not apply cause it is part of the person.

11. I hope someone out there is playing a Bard who uses plumbing pipes.

12. since it’s meant to be open, I’d go with something like “strumento a fiato” (I’m assuming that the translation is in italian!)

13. Wind instruments

14. that’s the english for “strumenti a fiato”, yes.

15. another vote for having always thought of them as pan-pipes

16. upside of simple pan like pipes, you have 1 hand free.

17. upside of the bagpige… it’s a friggin’ bagpipe dude!!

18. yeah, I remember summer 2012, playing with celtic culture-enthusiasts.

    Me: “So bard, how does it work that when you blow your bagpipes, the ranger gets +1d4 damage?”

    Ranger: “Bagpipes, dude. That’s what they do in real life.”

19. Actually guys, they meant these pipes.

    Blue Man Group London Drumbone full video (HQ)

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