There is one in the party right now, and just got the first level of the prestige. Also, she is a gnome, which just makes me happy (we really don't care so much for min/maxing) but is besides the point. Any way, what is the point is a question in regards to the breath attack.
She asked if she would be able to continue using her song ability if she shot one out, or if the attack would interrupt it, and she would have to activate another usage afterward. As of right now I am leaning towards saying yeah, she can continue singing. Its not effecting the game, and I really cannot see how it could possibly make things go awry, I'm just curious as to what other people think. Right now we just say she is yelling at the enemy.
Also, a little aside: barbarian to duelist is one of the coolest non-hardcore maths combos I have ever had the opportunity to dm for. This is one of my favourite groups ever.
Yes, she could keep singing. Once the song is started, maintaining is a free action. It also makes real world sense. Songs don't require the singer to be using their vocal chords continuously without pause. There are breaks for breath, tempo, punctuation, instrumentation, etc.
Right, just imagine a particular sung/shouted word erupting in flame for emphasis.
In any case, there's plenty of other Perform specialties which don't involve vocalization at all.
I think you should only allow it if the character changes her name to Gene Simmons. :-D
The rules definately support that she can continue singing. Free actions (maintaining the song) are not interupted by standard ones. The 'real' world also supports this as there are no songs that cannot be interupted for a moment. Given a breath weapon is instantaneous, it shouldnt take long at all to get it out.
And to build off the real world argument for this being allowable, music does have rests and pauses. There's no reason why one rest can't be punctuated with a blast of flame! (or other element as the dragon type would dictate, of course)
Ha, wonderful. We were thinking that since yeah, its singing and breathing at the same time it should be good, but just wanted to see how other people thought. Thanks all.