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Hmmmm...note to self: bard using the fascinate performance paired with a barbarian with a VERY big hammer.
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I have an archaeologist bard still waiting for a chance to use This to make his enemies gangam style.
What confuses me is how a lot of Bardic performances can be a simple as a free action to maintain. Maybe a performance with an audile component could be as simple as continuing to hum a tune and visual could entail precise movement? But regardless, how would any of that not need something like a concentration check at least? The character is deliberately maintaining something that requires some degree of skill.
Remember, you can reflavor this however you want. You don't even have to 'perform' at all. Any bard I would play would just be casting spells to provide the buffs and such, like every other spell he casts.
I wonder, has anyone done a Vicious Mockery-type Bard? That is, a Bard whose performances are nothing but scathing jabs and hurtful insults hurled at the enemy.
I wonder, has anyone done a Vicious Mockery-type Bard? That is, a Bard whose performances are nothing but scathing jabs and hurtful insults hurled at the enemy.
Versatile performance: oratory, snake style, antagonize. Mock your enemies into attacking you to avoid the penalties and then use your verbal skills as a defense, all powered by your perform ranks.
Be human and you can have all of that by level 3.
For example, had a bard that "set the beat" for his compatriots. He noticed that people work together best when in synch and in rhythm with eachother.
"And one and two and SWING and three and CAST and four and .." Basically a battle conductor.
That's awesome! "...Come on everybody! Work those swords! Fogg, I know you have another magic missile in there somewhere!..."
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I wonder, has anyone done a Vicious Mockery-type Bard? That is, a Bard whose performances are nothing but scathing jabs and hurtful insults hurled at the enemy.
I have a gnome with the prankster bard archetype from the Advanced Race Guide in PFS. They have most of the normal bardic stuff (Inspire Courage, Inspire Competence, Bardic Knowledge), but they give up some of the lesser used powers like Fascinate in order to get a bardic performance called Mock. Yes, it's all about insulting enemies to debuff them.
Combine with the gnome alternate racial trait that gets two languages per rank of linguistics, and you can insult people in ALL the languages.
I also went with Perform: Comedy as his first Versatile Performance for the sake of demoralizing enemies with intimidation. That debuff and Mock stack.
My other bard in PFS is an archer bard who mostly does oratory performances. As a freed slave, his usual start to his Inspire Courage is to just yell "FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!". I've also used historical speeches once in a while, ie "Ask not what the Pathfinder Society can do for you. Ask what you can do for the Pathfinder Society."
That's awesome! "...Come on everybody! Work those swords! Fogg, I know you have another magic missile in there somewhere!..."For example, had a bard that "set the beat" for his compatriots. He noticed that people work together best when in synch and in rhythm with eachother.
"And one and two and SWING and three and CAST and four and .." Basically a battle conductor.
I'm just imagining a bard based on Richard Simmons. Which may be a new winner in the How to Annoy Everybody Else at the Table competition.
Yeah... I think you may have just inspired the next reoccurring big bad to torment my players. He'd have the leadership feat with followers made up completely of women. I'd just need to come up with an obsession for them other than weight loss 'cause that would be massively offensive.