I played a few fort bards, and that was always a very annoying aspect. Having to be extremely careful with songs just ruins the fun, since it is very easy to counter a bard that can't harm goodies.

How you have to play it when people bring goodies in as meat shields is lullaby. Or Tranquil serenade to get them out of the fight. If I knew an enemy was coming, I would sleep all the goodies in the few rooms around me so I could move around. Nothing more annoying than an evil warrior that just drives you in between songs and you get screwed cause you vibratoed some lowbie npc.

But it is really stupid that some lowbie evil can see a fort bard fighting, summon a level 1 elf right before the bard sings and the bard gets screwed. Same with warriors using drive and such. Just too many ways for the bard to kill an innocent by sheer accident.

That's why fort bards suck in my opinion. (at least if you want maran and so have to pk)
Of course, if you can reach maran, just lightforge wrath talismans and use them instead of songs.

But still, pretty meh overall that the main tool of a fort bard is so easily turned against them in PK situations. Just use roundhouse and kick!