Hi guys I have this new player who joined my group for a campagin that i am running. He is playing a Bard, he has taken the Lingering song feat, so what his bard does is he uses his standard action to sing, stops as an imedeate action and the effects linger for 2 rounds. Then after the 3 rounds have gone he does it again.
Now as far as i understand that RAW (rules as written) this is legal, but i dont feel that it is in spirit of the game. The player never come to me and asked if this would be alright to do either.
Is this Right? is my player right and i am bing over zealous? what?
Given that bardic performance has a limited number of rounds per day that the bard can gain magical benefit from it, and the feat Lingering Song, that sounds about right to me... it does seem a tiny bit cheesy, but well within the rules. course, I may be wrong as I've never played bards, there is only one arcane caster imo, and that's a wizard...
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He's using the Feat for exactly what it's meant to be used for, yes. The trade-off is that he's burning a Standard action every third round (at least until higher Bard levels). It's pretty much a 'must have' Feat for a lot of Bards... unless your party happens to run really short combats anyway (which can happen if, for example, you have a couple of two-hander melee types up front).
It sounds like your primary problems are the following:
1. He didn't give you a warning that this was coming.
2. He's new and didn't give you a warning that this was coming.
3. The material is new and you didn't have a warning that this was coming.
So I would suggest that you talk to him (nicely of course) and ask that in the future he shows you what he is looking at playing and where the 'odd parts' about it are. This way you have a heads up what is coming, and can work with him -- before he's playing with it -- to keep it in line with what you are comfortable with in your game.
It doesn't seem to me like this is 'breaking' anything for you other than the warning rule (always warn the GM if you are using game changing stuff that is new to him) and the fact it therefore caught you off guard. So I think simply talking to him could help cover things in the future.