| Karuth |
The feat Spellsong allows you to combine Bardic Performance with Spellcasting.
The Frozen Note spell paralyzes everyone around you unless they save.
The Quickening Pulse Masterpiece lets anyone sweat blood as long as they hear you.
Now if you combine this, you should get the effect of completely captivating your audience and slowly making them bleed to death while they listen to you. For flavor reasons you could also say they cry blood because the music is so beautiful.
If you need even more damage... end the song with Deadly Finale for extra sonic damage and even more bleed.
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There is however a flaw in this. Frozen Note says you can't do any other action than sing. Question is... can your singing count for both a performance and a spell?
Even if the combo is not allowed, with the spell Exquisite Accompaniment it should be possible. The summoned instrument plays Quickening Pulse and you cast Frozen Note.
Any thoughts on this? Just imagine an evil, famous Bard doing it on stage to his audience. To quote a certain Russian: "So much blood!"
| TGMaxMaxer |
Yes. However, it would cost you 2 rounds of performance each round of maintaining.
The Devs have said that you can have both a bardic performance and a masterpiece active at the same time, as they are different abilities that both happen to "cost" the same currency, performance rounds.
So, you could both inspire courage and quickening pulse at the same time, paying 2 rounds for each round you maintain both.
Spellsong lets you spend perform rounds to maintain concentration on a spell you already cast, by spending rounds of perform. The masterpiece would also cost rounds.
Of course, by the time you get a 5th level bard spell, you have plenty of perform to burn.