Swift Performance [General]
Benefit- Select one bardic performance you know. You can activate this bardic performance ability as a swift action. Using this ability consumes two uses of your daily bardic performances.
Special- You can select this feat more than once. Each time, it must apply to a different bardic performance you know.
I'd also like to see feats that let bards affect greater areas, or use a performance on themselves only without giving away what they are doing. Every other class can make their class features better by taking feats. Bards should be able to, as well.
Yes, these are good ideas, depending on what the bard looks like when it's finally completed.
Seconded. I would love to see something like this.
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Harmonize and Greater Harmonize spells from Races of Stone already let you initiate bardic music powers as move actions. I personally wouldn't blow a feat on that.
Also, the Sonorous Hum spell from Spell Compendium lets you maintain concentration on an ongoing spells as a free action (great for illusion, flaming sphere, ball lightning, and other concentration spells...)
Finally, Complete Adventurer states that if you play either a lute, violin, flute (i.e. any instrument that requires two hands from the bard) you can cast bard spells as a swift action that round. I guess WotC thought this was too uber, so made this a feat in the latter "Complete Mage" (i.e. the feat Melodic Casting)
So with Melodic Casting feat, Harmonize spell, and Sonorous Hum spell, my bard was able, in a typical round, to activate two bardic music effects (move + standard), cast a spell (swift), maintain an existing spell (free), and take a 5 foot step (free).
yeah... I pissed off my DM and swung the tide of battle many a time with that young gnomish bard dude! LOL! :P