| deuxhero |
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You can combine your bardic performance and your spellcasting in two ways. First, you can conceal the activity of casting a bard spell by masking it in a performance. As a swift action, you may combine your casting time of a spell with a Perform check. Observers must make a Perception or Sense Motive check opposed by your Perform check to realize you are also casting a spell. This uses 1 round of your bardic performance ability, regardless of the spell's casting time.
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Every bard spell has a verbal component (singing, reciting, or music).
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A verbal component is a spoken incantation. To provide a verbal component, you must be able to speak in a strong voice
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A somatic component is a measured and precise movement of the hand. You must have at least one hand free to provide a somatic component.
Just how does dancing (or miming, which is a possible use for act going by The House of the Imaginary Walls, for that matter?) mask verbal components? Same with singing for somatic stuff.
| Zoliath |
Im not quite sure what your asking here, this ability does not negate the need for somatic or verbal components, it simply bluffs people to look like your moving your hands as part of a show as opposed to casting a spell. So instead of sitting in the corner wiggling your hands chanting nonsense, it looks like your putting on an elaborate performance
| Rhatahema |
deuxhero wrote:
Just how does dancing (or miming, which is a possible use for act going by The House of the Imaginary Walls, for that matter?) mask verbal components? Same with singing for somatic stuff.
Presumably it doesn't. The feat doesn't specify, but it seems clear the intent is that audible performances conceal verbal components, while visual performances conceal somatic.