I was wondering how the Pathfinder Chronicler's 4th level ability works in Society play.
The ability reads as follows:
Epic Tales (Su)
A 4th-level Pathfinder chronicler can inscribe a tale so evocative and so moving that it conveys the effects of bardic music through the written word. To create an epic tale requires the pathfinder chronicler to expend a number of rounds of her bardic performance ability equal to twice the duration of the epic tale (maximum duration of 10 rounds), and any relevant Performance skill check is made with Profession (scribe) instead. An epic tale affects only the reader, but it grants all the benefits that would normally apply for hearing a performance. A Pathfinder chronicler may apply the effects of any feats that affect bardic music to her epic tales. An epic tale retains its supernatural potency for 1 day per class level. It requires 1 hour to inscribe, a full-round action to activate, and a duration equal to 1/2 the number of bardic performance rounds expended during its creation. Once activated, an epic tale's magic is consumed.
How many would you have at the start?
Each one lasts 1 day per class level or at least 4 days. Could you have 4 days worth (or more) of bardic music to start. Would you have none, and need to make it in play (this would make it next to useless).
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You have none, and need to make it in play.
Abilities, effects, spells or summonds, etc, etc, do not carry over from scenario to scenario. There are 3 exceptions, Continual Light, Masterwork Transformation and some other spell I don't feel like looking up right now. Of those 3, you can only have 1 such spell up at a time per PC. For more detail on this, please see the Guide to Organized Play.
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ACtually, there are 4 spells, including, IIRC, secret page as the fourth.
However, this is more like having a charged spell storing item, and probably requires an answer from John or Mike on it. Whether that is that a Pathfinder Chronicler can have one Epic at the start of a game, with a duratioon of half their maximum rounds of bard song, or that this ability is replaced with an effect like having the feat Extra Bard Song, while being able to be taken with that feat.