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Note, however, that any with a duration of one round will expire right before your next turn. Which is lame.

It is lame. We house ruled that a Cleric can use it on themselves as a swift action, but its a standard to use them on anyone else

So, to those advocating being able to switch which hand is primary and which is off in the middle of a full attack action, can I do the same during a Two weapon fighting action? If so, it would follow I could change which hand is off as well right? Then I could have only one really nice weapon and use it for all my attacks including the extra ones gained by two weapon fighting and just hold a crappy dagger in my off hand that I never actually attack with, or better yet a shield I never attack with. I will just hold a shield declare a two weapon fighting attack and substitute in more sword attacks instead of the shield for my off hand weapon attacks. So who says you have to invest in two nice weapons?

The spell description is not very clear at all on this, does it just help against magical impediments, it does specifically call out under water, would is work on normal non- magical rough terrain?

Lycanthropy

Ok having a debate with a friend about this-

A remove disease or heal spell cast by a cleric of 12th level or higher cures the affliction, provided the character receives the spell within 3 days of the infecting lycanthrope's attack. Alternatively, consuming a dose of wolfsbane gives an afflicted lycanthrope a new Fortitude save to recover from lycanthropy.

My friend says that the dose of wolvesbane also needs to be taken within three days, I say that according to RAW it can be taken any time to get another save. Which is it?

Theo Stern wrote:

ProfessorCirno wrote:

You don't actually need to be using perform for the entire time bardic performance is going. You basically give your speech, or play your song, or do your dance, or whatever, then hold onto the magic it creates for x rounds.

Wow that's an interesting interpretation. For the record, I allowed the potion use, but this would allow other verbal actions like casting a spell. can you point to RAW that backs this up? I mean it says an audible performance needs to be heard, to be effective, does that mean it only needs to be heard the first round?

Thanks

That's also the correct interpretation.

Bardic performance abilities do NOT require any ranks at all in a specific perform. We specifically decoupled them from the Perform skill so that there was less of a "skill tax" on bards. While a couple of the bardic performance abilities benefit from having ranks in a Perform skill, they don't require them.

In any event, no matter WHAT kind of performance you choose to do when you use a bardic performance ability, the ability to work other actions (such as potion drinking or spellcasting or attacking) into your performance is part of what makes bards great performers.

Activating a bardic performance is a standard action until 7th level, at which point activating it is a move action. Then, at 13th level, activating it is a free action. Maintaining bardic performance once it's activated is a free action. This means that you CAN cast spells or attack or use magic items or whatever while you're maintaining a bardic performance, and after 7th level, you can even activate and attack or spellcast.

Thank you James, the last thing I would like clarification on is whether the performance is being maintained or the magic. I.E. is the bard still performing and can just do other things during the performance whereby a silence spell could still interrupt an oration? Or are they just maintaining the magic from the one round oration when they initiated it?