Bardic Inspiration Token

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After months of consistently forgetting to hand out Bardic Inspiration, I decided to create an object that would serve as a constant reminder for myself and my fellow party members. To ensure its effectiveness, I opted to design a token that resembled my bard's primary instrument: the lute. As an avid lute player in real life, however, I encountered a challenge - none of the existing Bardic Inspiration tokens accurately depicted the intricacies of medieval and Renaissance European lutes, which are ubiquitous in fantasy worlds. This realization sparked the idea to design my own token from scratch. Using a picture of my 10-course Renaissance lute as a reference point, I converted it into a 3D object that would perfectly capture its proportions, even if it didn't replicate every detail. While I may ultimately create another lute with a rounded back and complete peg box, for now, I chose to focus on crafting a flat token that would serve as a reliable reminder of Bardic Inspiration's presence in our campaigns.