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I am currently playing a bard in a home campaign of Emerald Spire. I named him: Fabrizio Apiacere, the Master Maestro and Conductor of the Invisible Orchestra. I decided I was going to be the super bard, and put all of my skill points into perform skills (except for 1 each level into UMD so I could use a wand as a conductor's baton).
I've been trying to grab as many masterpieces as I can as I go. (We should be hitting 10 soon and I'm actually thinking about not even learning a lvl 4 spell and just getting 2 masterpieces instead, 10 is a rly good level for them).
My GM and I have basically be using this rule: You can only be playing one song at a time. If an effect is not reliant on the bard continuing to play the song, it does not go away if you start a new song, because they they are still emotionally moved by the original performance even if I'm not playing it anymore.
It's been a blast so far, although we did end up nerfing pageant of the peacock. We ended up ruling that pageant could only be used for 1 check instead of lasting for 10 minutes, and the act of performing it allowed you to make the check. So no free action using bluff to identify a monster, I have to spend the action to do the performance (stopping any performance I had been playing) and spending the BPR to use the effect.
Using those rules it hasn't seemed overpowered, but also doesn't feel like my masterpiece options are a waste.