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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1796324" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>About the Bardic Music, if you make it into feats you have to deals with two separate benefits: how many times per day (normally 1/level) and how many forms (normally automatically gained at some level if enough ranks in perform).</p><p></p><p>In a way I think the whole Bardic Music is worth definitely more than a single feat, but the single abilities aren't always, so I'd go with grouping together 2-3 abilities into a feat, and let them use a number per day equal to the Cha bonus. This fixed number per day makes a difference only at levels 1-3 when it's better, later on it's not so bad because (1) you don't often need the same bardic music more than 3-4 times a day and (2) each feat grants its own separate uses.</p><p></p><p>For example:</p><p></p><p><strong>Inspire Courage</strong></p><p>Preq.: Cha 13+, Perform 3 ranks</p><p>Benefit: as PHB, with normal increases by level</p><p></p><p><strong>Fascinate</strong></p><p>Preq.: Cha 13+, Perform 3 ranks</p><p>Benefit: as PHB; as soon as you have 9 ranks you can use the Suggestion, and as soon as you have 21 ranks you can use the Mass Suggestion</p><p></p><p><strong>Inspire Heroics</strong></p><p>Preq.: Cha 13+, Perform 18 ranks</p><p>Benefit: as PHB; alternatively you could make it scale by level just as ICourage, since it's pretty equivalent (it's basically a defensive version)</p><p></p><p>Countersong, Inspire Competence, Inspire Greatness and Song of Freedom don't fit well together with each other, and they are quite week to be worth a feat each! If it's not too much for you, put them all together into a single feat still usable as many times per day = Cha bonus, each time using a different effect (which require the usual perform ranks to be done). In case someone wants more uses per day, you can always let him take these feats more than once.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 1796324, member: 1465"] About the Bardic Music, if you make it into feats you have to deals with two separate benefits: how many times per day (normally 1/level) and how many forms (normally automatically gained at some level if enough ranks in perform). In a way I think the whole Bardic Music is worth definitely more than a single feat, but the single abilities aren't always, so I'd go with grouping together 2-3 abilities into a feat, and let them use a number per day equal to the Cha bonus. This fixed number per day makes a difference only at levels 1-3 when it's better, later on it's not so bad because (1) you don't often need the same bardic music more than 3-4 times a day and (2) each feat grants its own separate uses. For example: [B]Inspire Courage[/B] Preq.: Cha 13+, Perform 3 ranks Benefit: as PHB, with normal increases by level [B]Fascinate[/B] Preq.: Cha 13+, Perform 3 ranks Benefit: as PHB; as soon as you have 9 ranks you can use the Suggestion, and as soon as you have 21 ranks you can use the Mass Suggestion [B]Inspire Heroics[/B] Preq.: Cha 13+, Perform 18 ranks Benefit: as PHB; alternatively you could make it scale by level just as ICourage, since it's pretty equivalent (it's basically a defensive version) Countersong, Inspire Competence, Inspire Greatness and Song of Freedom don't fit well together with each other, and they are quite week to be worth a feat each! If it's not too much for you, put them all together into a single feat still usable as many times per day = Cha bonus, each time using a different effect (which require the usual perform ranks to be done). In case someone wants more uses per day, you can always let him take these feats more than once. [/QUOTE]
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