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<blockquote data-quote="Slit518" data-source="post: 7315292" data-attributes="member: 6803713"><p>Bless -</p><p>Casting Time: Action or outside of combat</p><p>Duration: 1 minute or until loss of concentration</p><p>Concentration</p><p>Effect: 1d4 on attack rolls & saving throws for 3 allies (<em>or more cast at higher levels</em>) for 1 minute.</p><p>As a first level spell, it's a really good buff.</p><p></p><p>Bardic Inspiration -</p><p>Casting Time: Bonus Action or outside of combat</p><p>Duration: 10 minutes or until used</p><p>Effect: 1d6 (<em>up to 1d12 at higher levels</em>) on attack rolls & saving throws for 1 ally, once, and then it's gone, forever, until the Bard graces you with another one.</p><p>It's an okay ability at best in it's current circumstance. And yes, a d12 later is pretty awesome, but by then, combat should be harder, saves should be crazier, conditions may cause you to save at Disadvantage, or have minuses to certain things in combat, etc... so that d12 may save you, but only one of you.</p><p></p><p>So perhaps instead you gain a number of uses equal to your Charisma modifier a Long Rest (<em>eventually a Short Rest</em>), you can effect up to that many people at once, and regain your use at the end of a Short Rest.</p><p>So you get 1 use, can effect between 1-5 allies depending on Charisma mod, and then have to Short or Long Rest before you're able to use it again.</p><p></p><p>Something like Cutting Words could be a different ability that is also used 1 a Short Rest, but it effects 1 target.</p><p></p><p>Or, alternatively, Cutting Words could share the same slot Bardic Inspiration does, and it acts the same was as Bardic Inspiration except it works like Cutting Words works where you undermine the enemies' abilities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slit518, post: 7315292, member: 6803713"] Bless - Casting Time: Action or outside of combat Duration: 1 minute or until loss of concentration Concentration Effect: 1d4 on attack rolls & saving throws for 3 allies ([I]or more cast at higher levels[/I]) for 1 minute. As a first level spell, it's a really good buff. Bardic Inspiration - Casting Time: Bonus Action or outside of combat Duration: 10 minutes or until used Effect: 1d6 ([I]up to 1d12 at higher levels[/I]) on attack rolls & saving throws for 1 ally, once, and then it's gone, forever, until the Bard graces you with another one. It's an okay ability at best in it's current circumstance. And yes, a d12 later is pretty awesome, but by then, combat should be harder, saves should be crazier, conditions may cause you to save at Disadvantage, or have minuses to certain things in combat, etc... so that d12 may save you, but only one of you. So perhaps instead you gain a number of uses equal to your Charisma modifier a Long Rest ([I]eventually a Short Rest[/I]), you can effect up to that many people at once, and regain your use at the end of a Short Rest. So you get 1 use, can effect between 1-5 allies depending on Charisma mod, and then have to Short or Long Rest before you're able to use it again. Something like Cutting Words could be a different ability that is also used 1 a Short Rest, but it effects 1 target. Or, alternatively, Cutting Words could share the same slot Bardic Inspiration does, and it acts the same was as Bardic Inspiration except it works like Cutting Words works where you undermine the enemies' abilities. [/QUOTE]
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