| MalakaiFrejlor |
Exquisite accompaniment only gives me free bardic performance rounds and I can't do something like pull out another instrument or start singing while the phantom instrument plays its song.
IMO, since Exquisite Accompaniment is a Personal spell, it is cast on you. Therefore I believe the only purpose of this spell is to give you free rounds of performance.
Virtuoso performance, at least as you would rule it, when combined with the Tuned bowstring (or Exquisite accompaniment) would just cost a total of two bardic performances per round instead of three.
I would rule this the same way.
Neither does shadowbard though. Does this mean with it up I can't break the one performance limit or is it different because it's basically a second me and does its own performances (based on what I can do and tell it to do) while exquisite accompaniment is an instrument?
This spell creates a duplicate of yourself separate from you (it has a range of close, not personal) and as such I believe it would be able to perform its own Bardic Performance. I believe this because it is a duplicate of the Caster and the spell states that it begins a bardic performance as soon as you cast it. So assuming you are not singing and the fact that it has a range on the spell, I believe this is the case. I do not believe it would get access to your gear, so Banner of the Ancient Kings would not affect it. Unfortunately, I also believe it would NOT get access to your feats, but this could go both ways. As the caster, casting the spell at your Caster Level, and able to use the same Bardic Performances as you, I could see this working. My advice is to consult your GM and see if he would allow it.
With all of this being said, using Exquisite Accompaniment, Shadowbard, and Virtuoso Performance, you can have 3 songs in effect that will cost you 2 per round (at the expense of the spell slots of course)