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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Artoomis" data-source="post: 4194201" data-attributes="member: 111">Well, they are right there in the description of how bardic music abilities work:"Starting a bardic music effect is a standard action. Some bardic music abilities require concentration, which means the bard must take a standard action each round to maintain the ability. 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. "Other actions may be taken while maintaining ability that is currently in use.  There is a non-stated implication that you actually need to keep using a performance skill, but that's not actually stated.  Even so, it would be fair to say that if the bard was, say, silenced, that the effect would then move into it's 5-round residual effect state.However, nothing states (or even clearly implies) that one cannot weave a new performance into the old one and end up with two abilities active and maintained at the same time.An accomplished performer in the real world can indeed often do more than one performance at a time using the same instrument(s) and/or voice, as was pointed out above.Not only that, the performance need not be continual, it seems, only on-going in some way.  That's because even the abilities that require concentraion only require only a standard action to maintain - implying that the performance need not be truly continual.  The last point, however, is completely unimportant to my argument and only serves to refute your argument about only one performance at a time.</blockquote>

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