BSF
Explorer
So I was looking through the Charm lists in EoM the other night and somethig odd occurred to me.
OK, so this makes it increasingly more difficult to emulate Inspire Courage. At low levels, a Bard could possibly Inspire Courage on the rest of the party. Assuming it wasn't a very big party. If you assume a 4 person group, the Threshold will only allow an Inspire Courage for 3 people up to 2nd level. From 3rd level up, you can only Inspire 2 people.
This will affect anything that in the core rules provides a mass morale affect.
Is this an intentional design decision? Am I misunderstanding the application of threshold? Once I realized this, I felt quite a bit of disappointment. Infuse spells are much more efficient about providing bonuses since you could create a discerning area of effect spell that would provide many more bonuses than the Charm lists. The thing is, I have always enjoyed the aspect of Bard's Inspire Courage to improve a great many people under the right circumstances. It would be kind of sad to have my bard actually become less effective at inspiring courage amongst his friends the higher level they all get.
If there is more than one creature in the area of effect, this spell affects those with the lowest Hit Dice first, until it reaches its Hit Dice Threshold. Creatures beyond the HD Threshold are not affected at all.
OK, so this makes it increasingly more difficult to emulate Inspire Courage. At low levels, a Bard could possibly Inspire Courage on the rest of the party. Assuming it wasn't a very big party. If you assume a 4 person group, the Threshold will only allow an Inspire Courage for 3 people up to 2nd level. From 3rd level up, you can only Inspire 2 people.
This will affect anything that in the core rules provides a mass morale affect.
Is this an intentional design decision? Am I misunderstanding the application of threshold? Once I realized this, I felt quite a bit of disappointment. Infuse spells are much more efficient about providing bonuses since you could create a discerning area of effect spell that would provide many more bonuses than the Charm lists. The thing is, I have always enjoyed the aspect of Bard's Inspire Courage to improve a great many people under the right circumstances. It would be kind of sad to have my bard actually become less effective at inspiring courage amongst his friends the higher level they all get.