The Wayward Bard

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Status

Hiatus

Author

moulder666

Reviews

Community Reviews(10)

• kokonutRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  The Wayward Bard is an excellent story. From the beginning, the story comes alive with rich visual detail and a strong sense of character. Our protagonist, Daniel / Arcangelo, is likeable and compelling. He's not very heroic, and he's not a villain, either, despite some questionable morals. Average people can relate to him.
  The pacing moves forward at a good pace. I didn't notice any filler, but there is a good amount of information presented about the game Arcangelo is playing, World of Chains. I would say it's just enough to satisfy reader curiosity and set the stage for book two. The ending is well planned out.
  Read the book. You'll enjoy it.
• AlQaholicRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Gripping Read! Throughly enjoyed, please do upload more.
• MaulisiusRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Story goes on very smoothly, the only part to break my life immersion was the talk with the mayor, but once you get over it, the story goes on in a nice pace with secrets revealed step by step.
• OrthanRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  After all the stories of mages, rogues and warriors, it's great to see a story of someone who chose a bard! Even if he initially did it only to have a 2year party.
  As of chapter 17 the story is original, fun and has very few issues with grammar or spelling. The MC is not overpowered and actually seems to resolve challenges the way I picture a bard would.
  Definitely worth a go.
• 13lack12oseRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  exceptionally well written - highly recommend this to everyone who appreciates good story telling!
  Game elements start out heavy but soon move into the background and add to the story rather than detract.
  Moulder666 has stumbled upon a winning combination here, absolutely love it
• HolyPriestRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I am usually not a fan of LitRPG. Most of the times they either don't focus on lore at all and only PvP like in Zhang Long, Emperor of Solo Play and such or they have a million hints during not-ingame periods that "the game is actually reality".
• LitRPGeekRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  A bard with maxed out Charisma, this is going to be good! The main this is that the story grips you from that first chapter, I'll be reading this to the end.
• HamsterDesTodesRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  The Wayward Bard is an incredible enjoyable story about a very underrepresented class: the bard (I know, given the titel thats truly shocking!)
  The story is refreshingly down to earth. The story hook is not the end of the world where everyone has to flee into cyverspace, not a mysterious server malfunction, runaway AI or supervillain that's out to kill a bunch of innocent players, neither is the daughter/sister/whoever fatally ill and needs a huge medial bill paid.
  No, as the blurb tells us, the hook is that the player steals a bunch of money his firm was busy washing for some mob boss, and now he better lie low for a while.Very ellegant!
  Which leads to an also refreshingly non-OP character. He's never supposed to fight or conquer the world, the plan was to enjoy his illgotten gains with virtual drink and women. Doesnt turn out that way of course, so here we go.
  Grammar is fine. No massive ammount of typos, no glaring punctuation errors and best of all, no missused words. What else is there to hope for? 5* all the way :)
  The story itself developes slowl but surefooted. My only fear is that the author will lose interest long before we get far with this pace. Otherwise 5*, down to 4,5 out of pure anxiety.
  Characters are part wonderfull new and refreshing, part very cliechee. The main character is the former, his first (among many I hope) sidekick of the latter category.  4* overall.
  Style is well readable, not boringly repetitive and flows well. What actually drove me to write this entire review is chapter 24. There was a problem, the readers pointed it out in the comments, and now this chapter is being rewritten. No mopping, no justifications. Just a 'Well, didnt thinkt about that. You're right and Im going to make it all better.'
  That's style!  5*
  Thank you moulder666 for creating this tale, and for accepting criticism when its actually a constructive one. (still want to know what chp 24 was^^. Darn that I missed it!)
• djeruknipisRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  If I can only praise one aspect of this story I would say it got the most delightful pacing.
  Start from author's sorry excuse for the main character to start playing the game, details are shown deftly. I like it when MC describe his boring desc job in hilariously begrudging way. His relation with his boss and his coworker also told in just enough detail. Between those monologues, this is the good point, he grumbled as he weigh his option, and do what he decide to do nervously but decisively. By this point, this Daniel came alive and put himself into my mind as interesting character worth following around.
  His style doesn't stop as he enter the game world. Still neurotic, but when he need to do the right thing he skillfully applied his knowledge & experience. Consider the scene when he try to befriend tavern keeper, good use of mellowed mood right after outrageous stress release. Or in the other scene where he tried gaining adventuring partner by patiently herding crowd's emotion before communicating his appeal in most snappy way. I like this guy!
  A point though, revelation about villagers that they're more than what they appear to be are happening too quickly from one character to the next. I like it when we're told that bardmaster is doing a deep acting, but to have dwarven grave keeper actually keeping a great secret soon afterward cheapen the wonder. I would suggest that the secret the dwarf hold to be not so great afterall. By doing so, we can focus on one great plot, not numerous plot of equal weight.
  To close my review, I would like to point out that your English is most enjoyable to read (I'm not native English speaker, so I derrive pleasure from fluidity). My thanks also for pointing out that there's fantastic song from my favorite band about cracking a nut. Dang, I thought I know Queen. Oh, sick choice of illustrator too! You've hired amazing artist to get yourself a great book cover.
• DRog66Royal Road

  ★★ 1.5

  Story starts with an unlikable main protagonist, then goes down hill from there.  MC is extremely stupid and acts like a spoiled little baby when things don't go his way, then it just seems to go down hill from there.  Too bad seemed like an interesting plotline at first.