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<blockquote data-quote="saric" data-source="post: 4321557" data-attributes="member: 60567">Clerics could turn undead more than once per encounter too in 3.5. But not anymore. Bardic music is supposed to not be as powerful as channel divinity powers. A bard can have 90 encounters and use bardic music each time as long as he had 5 mins to rest in between battles.Considering most of the powers are songs or verses, you are performing every encounter with every power you use. Just not always doing bardic music over and over and over again. This isn't 3rd edition. 4th edition has a different design philosophy and I tried to keep that essence, while carrying over some of the flavor. By allowing unlimited sustains for the powers as written now, it is way too good for a class feature or even other encounter powers compared to the other classes.&nbsp; Thus either the bonuses would have to change or the number of targets.The pdf's inspirational boost is a daily power that lasts the encounter and it is a power bonus so it does not stack with inspire competence. Its a mistake in the wording that I put in the description. Bardic instruments should work just like a cleric's holy symbol, which means you don't have to be actually wielding it to gain its benefit. You can just wear your harp on your back while giving your inspiring speech or sing your song without an instrument and you'd still get the bonus. The reason the implement exists is to give you a bonus to keep up with the power curve of the game and other classes. Otherwise it wouldn't make sense to &quot;enchant my voice.&quot;&nbsp; As another suggestion, you could probably have a small scroll, book, pamphlet or yelling cone which could contain or amplify your speeches&nbsp; and you could consider that to be your bardic instrument. Otherwise, it would be called a &quot;musical&quot; instrument. I hope this clarifies things a little bit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="saric, post: 4321557, member: 60567"] Clerics could turn undead more than once per encounter too in 3.5. But not anymore. Bardic music is supposed to not be as powerful as channel divinity powers. A bard can have 90 encounters and use bardic music each time as long as he had 5 mins to rest in between battles. Considering most of the powers are songs or verses, you are performing every encounter with every power you use. Just not always doing bardic music over and over and over again. This isn't 3rd edition. 4th edition has a different design philosophy and I tried to keep that essence, while carrying over some of the flavor. By allowing unlimited sustains for the powers as written now, it is way too good for a class feature or even other encounter powers compared to the other classes. Thus either the bonuses would have to change or the number of targets. The pdf's inspirational boost is a daily power that lasts the encounter and it is a power bonus so it does not stack with inspire competence. Its a mistake in the wording that I put in the description. Bardic instruments should work just like a cleric's holy symbol, which means you don't have to be actually wielding it to gain its benefit. You can just wear your harp on your back while giving your inspiring speech or sing your song without an instrument and you'd still get the bonus. The reason the implement exists is to give you a bonus to keep up with the power curve of the game and other classes. Otherwise it wouldn't make sense to "enchant my voice." As another suggestion, you could probably have a small scroll, book, pamphlet or yelling cone which could contain or amplify your speeches and you could consider that to be your bardic instrument. Otherwise, it would be called a "musical" instrument. I hope this clarifies things a little bit. [/QUOTE]

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