OK, so someone mentioned in another post (I forget where) that the competence bonuses from abilities like bardic performance effectively increase BAB which may therefore boost your number of iterative attacks.
While this sounds plausible due to the wording of "competence" which implies general bad-4$$ery in the related field, it flies in the face of all the other bonus types (sacred, morale, enhancement, etc.) and I've found no support for this whatsoever. In fact, I find no definition of what most bonus types are or might normally affect (save for enhancement).
Could anyone either confirm that I'm not crazy and that competence bonuses do not affect your number of iterative attacks, or prove that I am losing it and point out where the definitions are that would support this theory.
Whoever said that was wrong.
As far as I'm aware, there is no text to imply that is the case.
Ok, thanks. That's about what I thought. Oh, it would have been awesome if it did do that, but it just made no sense.
I think there might have been a spell or two in 3.0 or 3.5 which increased your BAB, but as far as I recall, if they existed, they were all cleric self-buffs.
There's certainly nothing in Pathfinder.
Transformation did it, I think.
Transformation still does, but that is a separate issue where the spell actually specifies an alteration to your BAB.
Nevertheless, I think my question has been answered, as expected, against this interpretation which I found to be confusing in any case (the interpretation I mean, not the clarification by this thread).
Thank all of you.