So this never occurred to me before but how do Bard abilities that take multiple rounds to go off (Soothing Performance for example takes 4) interact with Lingering Performance? Do "lingering" rounds still count toward the total required?
For instance could I spend two rounds of performance for Soothing Performance, cease maintaining, and then have it trigger on the fourth round due to Lingering Performance? Seems grey to me but it certainly would make abilities like that more usable as it would seriously cut down on the performance rounds cost.
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So this never occurred to me before but how do Bard abilities that take multiple rounds to go off (Soothing Performance for example takes 4) interact with Lingering Performance? Do "lingering" rounds still count toward the total required?
For instance could I spend two rounds of performance for Soothing Performance, cease maintaining, and then have it trigger on the fourth round due to Lingering Performance? Seems grey to me but it certainly would make abilities like that more usable as it would seriously cut down on the performance rounds cost.
As always, it gets a lot easier to answer the question if you start by reading the rules involved:
Using this ability requires 4 rounds of continuous performance
The bonuses and penalties from your bardic performance continue for 2 rounds after you cease performing.
So the effect in question requires "continuous performance", while LP only says that the "bonuses and penalties" continue and even specifies that you have "ceased performing".
If you've already ceased performing after a couple of rounds, then you haven't really been performing continuously for 4 rounds, have you?