bardic music & concentration ?

[freyar]

Ok, folks, the question is simple. Which bardic music abilities require concentration and which can be disrupted by a failed concentration check (in the event of being wounded, etc)? As far as I can tell, it's pretty well split between (Sp) and (Su) abilities... EXCEPT inspire competence (Su) requires concentration.

I reason that the other Su abilities do not require concentration b/c actions that require concentration usually provoke AoOs, and Su abilities generally don't provoke AoOs. However, I'd think that some uses of perform, such as playing an instrument, would require some amount of concentration (and provoke an AoO, too). What do you all think?

 

[Artoomis]

Actually, it is very important to get this right.

"Some bardic music abilities require concentration, which means the bard must take a standard action each round to maintain the ability."

Thus, those that require concentraion use up a standard action each round, those that do not require concentraion do not require any action to maintain them.

ONLY Fascinate, Inspire Competence, Suggestion (because it relies upon Fascinate), Song of Freedom and Mass Suggestoin (for the same reason as Suggestion) require concentration.

Countersong, Inspire Courage, Inspire Greatness and Inspire Herios do NOT require concentration.

Note, though:

"Even while using bardic music that doesn’t require concentration, a bard cannot cast spells, activate magic items by spell completion (such as scrolls), spell trigger (such as wands), or command word."

I think the rules already pretty well cover what you had in mind.