Kwauss |
For example can you whisper jokes to your adjacent companions (knock-knock jokes, of course) quietly to avoid alerting nearby monsters? Is the same amount of noise made to maintain the ability? If people spread out, can you raise your volume accordingly? Can you do this in a moderate fashion (to avoid alerting bad guys further away)?
Zhayne |
This is all we have to go off of.
If a bardic performance has audible components, the targets must be able to hear the bard for the performance to have any effect, and many such performances are language dependent (as noted in the description). A deaf bard has a 20% chance to fail when attempting to use a bardic performance with an audible component. If he fails this check, the attempt still counts against his daily limit. Deaf creatures are immune to bardic performances with audible components.
Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan RPG Superstar 2014 Top 16 |
Your allies have to be able to hear you to get the benefits of performance. There is no restriction on how noisy performance needs to be.
I suggest using the message cantrip to whisper out to 100+ feet.
Which is a little problematic, as it would seem to be a way to allow it to influence a Stealth check. Which it specifically cannot do.
wraithstrike |
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There's no rule you have to perform constantly, so one whispered joke should do it. What's the base DC to hear it? DC 15 is a whispered conversation, but this is just one joke - so DC 20? Almost like silent spell...
I guess you could say that.
There are no rules for whispering one sentence vs a conversation and performing is not a conversation.
an informal talk involving two people or a small group of people
With all of that aside the party has to be able to hear it, and most of the time this won't really do you any good except for corner cases.
I might even allow it, if it came up, if it was not too difficult, but since I use bards as NPC's I would let the players know it could work against them.PS: I don't think a deve would allow it,if they were to issue an FAQ however.
Kwauss |
With all of that aside the party has to be able to hear it, and most of the time this won't really do you any good except for corner cases.
I might even allow it, if it came up, if it was not too difficult, but since I use bards as NPC's I would let the players know it could work against them.PS: I don't think a deve would allow it,if they were to issue an FAQ however.
Do you think they can rule that without backtracking on other rulings minimizing bardic performance requirements?
wraithstrike |
wraithstrike wrote:Do you think they can rule that without backtracking on other rulings minimizing bardic performance requirements?
With all of that aside the party has to be able to hear it, and most of the time this won't really do you any good except for corner cases.
I might even allow it, if it came up, if it was not too difficult, but since I use bards as NPC's I would let the players know it could work against them.PS: I don't think a devs would allow it,if they were to issue an FAQ however.
What rulings do you mean? I don't remember any rulings against the bard class.