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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 1343405" data-attributes="member: 141">I'm trying to find ways to make the morale bonus to attack and damage as effective as possible.From Song and Silence:Interpreted in 3.5 terms, I take this as a +1 to attack and damage, and a -2 to saves vs charm effects.Similarly, I interpret the spell harmony from Magic of Faerun to add a +1 to attack and damage, and +2 to saves vs charm effects:Now comes the tricky part- the Words of Creation introduced in the Book of Exalted Deeds.  Applied to bardic music, it says the following:First- can words of creation be used with a horn?  Or do you need to be able to vocalize them?  The BXD saysBut this is flavor text, and doesn't say that they can only be used in a song; who says that mental formation of the words wouldn't have the same effect on a performance.  The Words of Creation feat is an exalted feat, and so is supernatural in nature rather than an extraordinary ability (p. 39).  I don't know if the fact that words of creation is a supernatural ability helps decide whether they need to be vocalized to work.So that's the first question- the second is whether one adds and then doubles, or doubles and then adds?  I know that with the empower feat you add first, then increase by 50%.  With critical hits constant modifiers are affected by the critical (but dice bonuses are not).  Would the same hold true of the morale bonus- add, then double?The most favorable interpretation of the rules (for the bard) would have words of creation work with a horn, and then, casting harmony first, an 8th level bard would be able to grant a +8 bonus to the attack and damage rolls of his comrades.  +2 base, +1 from the horn, +1 from harmony, doubled by words of creation.  +6 if the doubling happens first and then the addition.Comments?Does anyone know any other way of boosting the effectiveness of Inspire Courage?</blockquote>

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