Quote Originally Posted by noob View Post
You need to study a whole lot to do good music or humour or tragedy or whatever perform you will use.
Singing well is hard.
Even if the kind of performance you want to use is "easy to do" the fact you need ranks just to be an average bard means you need lots of training.
However if you are good at being a bard you do not just get any power: you get one of the most desired powers, the power of making yourself popular.
that kind of "studying" is a different kind of studying.
practicing your own artistic talent at home and "studying" other artsy people and trying to figure out why you like their performance
vs
needing to compete with other geniuses for a scholarship issued by the state to get you the education under a wizard professor with access to a full library of knowledge hoarded across the centuries and planes.