Out of all the roleplaying game classes that tend to irk me the most, the worst of my experiences has consistently been with bards. They seem to adopt, courtesy of their players typically, the worst of the traits; the magical obsession but real lack of understanding of warlocks, the typically nebulous leaning toward sporadic, "random", or even evil elements of greedy rogues, the spellcasting smugness, speaking charm, and silver tongue of sorcerers, and the bravado of a terribly outmatched fighter who will fight anyone who snubs their swordsmanship. I am not sure what effect pulls this amalgam of madness together but I have yet to be at an actual table where a bard was an asset; online I oddly haven't seen this phenomena. Seems I do not possess the kind of luck otherwise.