Hello
title says it all, can I use em in conjuction, because If i can I'm soooo gonna pick em up (Working on a dervish dancer).
thanks in advance.
For lazy people:
Battle Dance: A dervish dancer is trained in the use of
the Perform skill, especially dance, to create magical effects
on himself. This works like bardic performance, except the
dervish dancer only affects himself, and does not need to
be able to see or hear his own performance. Battle dancing
is treated as bardic performance for the purposes of feats,
abilities, effects, and the like that affect bardic performance,
except that battle dancing does not benefit from the
Lingering Performance feat or any other ability that allows
a bardic performance to grant bonuses after it has ended.
Battle dancing benefits apply only when the bard is wearing
light or no armor. Like bardic performance, it
cannot be maintained at the same time as other
performance abilities.
Starting a battle dance is a move
action, but it can be maintained each
round as a free action. Changing
a battle dance from one effect
to another requires the dervish
dancer to stop the previous
performance and start the new one as a
move action. Like a bard, a dervish dancer’s
performance ends immediately if he is killed,
paralyzed, stunned, knocked unconscious,
or otherwise prevented from taking a
free action each round. A dervish dancer
cannot perform more than one battle
dance at a time. At 10th level, a dervish
dancer can start a battle dance as a swift
action instead of a move action.
Dervish dancers gain the inspire
courage, inspire greatness, and inspire
heroics bardic performance types
as battle dances, but these only
provide benefit to the dervish
dancer himself.
The Dance of 23 Steps (Dance)
This complex dance makes you difficult to strike.
Prerequisite: Perform (dance) 4 ranks.
Cost: Feat or 2nd-level bard spell known.
Effect: The shuff ling steps, bends, and leaps of this
intricate dance make you a difficult target to hit, but also
make it more difficult for you to perform other actions.
When using this masterpiece, you take a –2 penalty on melee
attack rolls and combat maneuver checks,
and you must make a concentration
check to cast any spell (DC 15 + the
spell’s level), but you gain a +2
dodge bonus to your Armor
Class. When you have 8
ranks in Perform (dance),
and every 4 ranks thereafter,
the penalty increases by
–1 and the dodge bonus
increases by +1. You can
combine this masterpiece
with fighting defensively and
Combat Expertise, but not total
defense. When you use this masterpiece,
it lasts until the start of your next turn.
Abilities that extend the duration of a
bardic performance (such as Lingering
Performance; see page 164 of the
Advanced Player’s Guide) affect this
masterpiece; this allows you to get
multiple rounds of its benefit (and
its penalties) at the cost of only 1
round of bardic performance.
Use: 1 bardic performance round.
Action: 1 free action.
Leaf on the Wind (Su): At 14th level, a dervish dancer can use
his battle dance to evade attacks with unearthly grace and
to shake off the effects of his wounds. Unlike other battle
dances, leaf on the wind requires a standard action each
round to start or maintain the performance. Each round
it is maintained, including the first, the dervish dancer
gains a +6 dodge bonus to Armor Class and on
Ref lex saves. If wounded, he heals 1 hit point
of damage per bard level. This ability
replaces frightening performance.
A dervish dancer cannot perform more than one battle dance at a time.
A dervish dancer cannot perform more than one battle dance at a time.
Yeah I read that part, just wanted a clarification since dance of the 23 steps is a free action...oh wells