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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 6708171" data-attributes="member: 35909">[sblock]Yeah, I made sure from the start I told them it would be really useful often throughout the campaign.  I really don't want to deal with the headache of them not having it and the Trillith coming back.  So they had it.  I did loosen the requirements quite a bit, though.  I allowed anyone to take Extra Music feat for 4 uses per day, but if they have no bardic music it can only be used for the Song of Forms.  No one's taken me up on that offer.  I allowed Leadership Performance to be expendable for it, too.  I also have a homebrew Battle Dancer class based on Capoeira that gets various dances that give buffs like bardic music, and let those count, too.  That last one is how they've had it so far.I also got rid of the stupid Concentration requirement (ie, standard action to maintain each round, easy to interrupt w/ damage, and the player gets to sit out the combat.  So fun! /sarcasm).  I also haven't been enforcing the Con damage.  I didn't intend to let that one go, but I just forgot about it until I looked it up now.  Hmm... should I start enforcing that?Note that the campaign does list spells that can accomplish the same thing, although they're mid level.  I've avoided having them be "discovered" because a) until the party came through, no one outside of the Seela even knew the song of forms, you'd think it take some time to mimic it w/ spells through research and b) as long as someone can perform the actual song, I really dislike it when spells obsolete other options.  I'd suggest sticking Tiljann with them or some other solution.  I did stat Lady Dene as a bard (as part of a subplot that fell through when the Bard PC left my game after Chapter 3), if you want to do that, though they'd have had to teach her the song beforehand.  If it's too late to salvage, maybe just have [boss] go after them in Chapter 5 seeking revenge, so it can get resolved.  Recurring villains can be a lot of fun.  I actually added one to Chapter 5...  In my game, they chased Paradim Dogwood out of town but failed to kill him.  So I added him to the laboratory encounter w/ Aurus, eager for vengeance, which also was a tidy way to tie Lee Sidoneth to Pilus, or more accurately...remind the party about it.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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