There are no rules in the 2024 PHB for what a creature can do with a Bardic Inspiration dice they keep. Your suggestion of using it as a reaction is a decent house rule, but RAW the creature can't do anything with the dice.
Seriously? You actually need that explicitly spelled out what the PC can do with that die? What do you think a PC will do with a single die of bardic inspiration?
I'm not being obtuse at all, I'm just imagining how to read this rule if I had never seen the 2014 rules for bardic inspiration, only the 2024 ones.
Yep, clearly a mechanic that needs a little bit of work if they're going to insist everything be compatible with books published prior to the 2024 PHB. It isn't impossible to fix, so hopefully they make the needed clarifications before it goes into the actual book.
The 2024 PHB hasn't been written yet. Since the Bard is still in playtest and is up for another iteration, perhaps we should see it through that lens rather than it being (falsely) written in stone. Also, the great thing about playtests is that you get to give them feedback, and this is an excellent example of something that should be given as feedback.
Hang on a tick. I'll be the first to admit I haven't kept a totally close eye on the nitty gritty of the playtest. So, I just opened up the pdf for the Expert classes. Is there another playtest doc I should be looking at? Because, otherwise, you're talking about the 14th level power Peerless Skill.
The conversation was about the College of Eloquence subclass from Tasha's having a mechanic that isn't completely clear how it would work if a 2024 bard took that subclass since their Bardic Inspiration is triggered by a reaction for a failed roll.
Of course it would be pretty easy to adapt this feature for 2024 bards, just change "the creature keeps the die" to "you do not expend the die" on a failed roll. We just have to hope that WotC takes the time to publish fixes for these edge cases that need updated rules.
The question is about the compatability of the new Class chassis with the array of existing '14 Subckasses, which is a stated design goal of the WotC team, and quirky rules interactions between subclasses assuming the '14 Baedic Inspiration versus the new Bardoc Inspiration.
I have my own idea of house rules... and it goes like this, the bard choses (since we gave that choice to the bard not the target by new rules) you can keep it until the end of the encounter or 10 minutes, and yes you can have more then one but that isn't a good use of the effect.
