Hi All,
I'm playing a Bard (detective) in PFS and I have also taken Sound Striker.
I'm confused and would like some advise on how a couple of spells work with this the Careful Teamwork BP. Currently when I have Careful Teamwork running on the party and I use either a Masterpiece, Wordstrike or Weird Words, I adjust the initiative scores believing that I have a BP in effect. I'm assuming this is correct?
I've now want to start taking spells that aid my BP: Exquisite Accompaniment or Virtuoso Performance.
EA states "The instrument plays as you direct, and as long as it plays, you do not have to expend rounds of bardic performance from your daily allotment to maintain an effect. Activating a bardic performance or switching to a new effect still costs a round of your overall bardic performances per day"
I'm not maintaining an effect, so is this a useless spell, or can it be used in a different manner with the above abilities that I'm just not seeing.
VP states: While this spell is active, you may start a second bardic performance while maintaining another. Starting the second performance costs 2 rounds of bardic performance instead of 1. Maintaining both performances costs a total of 3 rounds of bardic performance for each round they are maintained. When this spell ends, one of the performances ends immediately (your choice).
I'm not maintaining a BP. I believe I would still need to expend two BP to use another performance but would I need to also expend and extra one BP to maintain the Careful Teamwork bonus? If I decide not to have a second BP in effect would I still need to expend one BP to maintain the effect?
Dan