Bardic Music bonus feat?

[Hawke]

I built my bard in the Character Builder and see "Bardic Training - Gain Bardic Music bonus feat." It isn't listed under the feats section and I can't find anything from the original article about it. Current searches are getting mucked up with 3.5 bard pages...

Anybody have any idea what this is all about? In the absence of facts, labeled speculation will suffice.

 

[Caliber]

Blatant speculation: Bard's will get something like a Divine characters Channel Divinity feats with each feat representing a song/type of music. Only one per encounter, but a large pool of possible powers to fill the encounter slot. Maybe Words of Friendship are a default ability that also goes in this pool?

Good find, btw.

 

[Kzach]

The Bardic Music bonus feat is Ritual Magic or Alchemy.

 

[fba827]

The Bardic Music bonus feat is Ritual Magic or Alchemy.

I have no idea where (and it may have even been in my head) but I thought that's what I read.

Of course, what Caliber said would be simple and possible as well.

 

[Hawke]

So sounds like it's just talking about this:

Bardic Training

You gain the Ritual Caster feat as a bonus feat, allowing you to use magical rituals. You own a ritual book, and it contains two rituals of your choice that you have mastered: one 1st-level ritual that has bard as a prerequisite (see Chapter 4) and another 1st-level ritual.

In addition, you can perform one bard ritual per day of your level or lower without expending components, although you must pay any other costs and use any focus required by the ritual. At 11th level, you can perform two bard rituals per day of your level or lower without expending components; at 21st level, you can perform three.

I wonder how exact the text in the book compares to this. The article was released 11/3/08. I can see possibilities:

1) The text was changed since then to something more musically flavorful (and inclusive of alchemy?) than is presented here.

2) We're confusing two things and the Bardic Music is in addition to the text above

3) The Character Builder is incorrect - Bardic Music may be another feat in phb2 or maybe was removed, but should read "Gain Ritual Casting bonus feat" or something similar.

If I had to speculate on what it might mean based on the second possibility, I just noticed the ampersand mentions using magic musical instruments (in Chapter 3 of phb2). Perhaps "Bardic Music" is a feat that grants access to those?