New Bard Song

Post by **LinuxPup** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 6:40 am

I noticed that bard song is a free action now which is cool.... I also noticed that the AC for my song is now only +4 instead of +5... is that intentional? I didn't see it in the changelog.

Post by **Lokey** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:43 pm

I'll get to it. Just rebalanced all the other things you get--saves and so forth, there were some ugly jumps, and I don't think you could even come close to the 100 skill req of the top bard song levels. I'll post the list and get around to looking at curse song...wait for it...soon.

MLoki · Post by **MLoki** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 9:57 pm

Actually my Bard 26/SD 10 was hitting right around 79 perform skill. I do have Epic Skill Focus Perform and I wanted to mention the higher levels of bard song can be met and I think it really should require some extra effort to get to. After putting that much effort into getting it that high the new bard song levels kinda ruined the build. Now I would have to have another 14 levels in bard (which is not possible) to even come close to what I could have done with this build before. The drastic reduction in skill bonuses/penalties (14 before now 8 and 4) is kinda odd as well. Only having your opponent lose 4 skill points to an epic curse song isn't really worth the effort now is it? I also don't see why Bard Song became an instant action. The other abilities have some precedence as free actions in PnP where as Bard Song is actually supposed to take an action. Other abilities that could stand to be free actions might include Expertise, Taunt and Defensive Casting. (It sucks to be a caster and have to "attack" before you can cast defensively in combat.) Perhaps the emphasis on Perform Skill could still be used in other ways besides just HP loss and gain because as it stands right now it requires no extra effort other then actually having perform to be able to use your Bard Song to it's fullest.

MLoki