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<blockquote data-quote="Chimera" data-source="post: 4321748" data-attributes="member: 2002">Doesn't make a lot of sense in the context of what you are responding to.&nbsp; I have no issues with it being an encounter power, as long as it lasts the length of the encounter.&nbsp; You're reducing it to one round with a very small bonus.&nbsp; This is taking the nerf bat to something that has never been a problem.&nbsp; The board has never been flooded with threads about how overpowering bardic music is.Cite please?&nbsp; 4e seems to be more about balance between the classes, not the 3e philosophy of making Clerics more powerful than any other class because people don't want to play them.&nbsp; Besides, it's not more powerful, it's fulfulling the Bard's usual role, which is not the Cleric's usual role.&nbsp; (I can probably count on one hand the times I've been the recipient of the Bless spell over the last 20 years and a dozen gaming groups.)Given that it's Close Burst 5 and the Bard's primary combat power/role, I disagree.Though I would be willing to drop the Inspirational Boost daily power for something else.Again, not every Bard is a musician.&nbsp; They can be actors, mimes, jugglers, storytellers, information gatherers.&nbsp; The whole 'Instrument' thing is an artifact of assuming they must be minstrels.Henry V:He that shall live this day, and see old age,Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors,And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian':Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,And say, 'These wounds I had on Saint Crispians day.'Lackey:&nbsp; Hold on, where's his bloody Implement?&nbsp; Bugger all, I'm not being inspired unless e's got an 'orn or some'in.&nbsp;<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chimera, post: 4321748, member: 2002"] Doesn't make a lot of sense in the context of what you are responding to. I have no issues with it being an encounter power, as long as it lasts the length of the encounter. You're reducing it to one round with a very small bonus. This is taking the nerf bat to something that has never been a problem. The board has never been flooded with threads about how overpowering bardic music is. Cite please? 4e seems to be more about balance between the classes, not the 3e philosophy of making Clerics more powerful than any other class because people don't want to play them. Besides, it's not more powerful, it's fulfulling the Bard's usual role, which is not the Cleric's usual role. (I can probably count on one hand the times I've been the recipient of the Bless spell over the last 20 years and a dozen gaming groups.) Given that it's Close Burst 5 and the Bard's primary combat power/role, I disagree. Though I would be willing to drop the Inspirational Boost daily power for something else. Again, not every Bard is a musician. They can be actors, mimes, jugglers, storytellers, information gatherers. The whole 'Instrument' thing is an artifact of assuming they must be minstrels. Henry V:He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors, And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian': Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say, 'These wounds I had on Saint Crispians day.' Lackey: Hold on, where's his bloody Implement? Bugger all, I'm not being inspired unless e's got an 'orn or some'in. ;) [/QUOTE]

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