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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GuardianLurker" data-source="post: 668570" data-attributes="member: 786">Cerebus, you've got it in one.Candid_Thought, the answer to your question is that I (for various reasons) stopped thinking about Bards as being their historical analogues (who were much more than just storytellers) and started thinking of them as "magical artists". And there's certainly some precedent for artists who are so skilled that their creations are magical (Pygmalion, for one).Thinking about it a little bit more, I came up with this :Bardic Crafting (Item Creation)Prereq: Bardic Music abilityEffects: A character with this feat can imbue any masterwork item he is creating with any Bardic Music effect (except Countersong), using his ranks of Craft (instead of Perform) to determine which effects he can imbue. Each effect can only be activated once, and thereafter the item is a normal masterwork item.Special: Imbuing an item with Inspire Courage or Fasicinate costs 25 xp, with Inspire Competence costs 50 xp, with Suggestion costs 100 xp, and with Inspire Greatness costs 200 xp. All costs a re per the maximum number of targets at activation.Thoughts?</blockquote>