"Dance of Kindled Desires"

[Corvid Black]

This bardic masterpiece says:

Effect: Your dance entices one creature within 30 feet that is able to see you, invoking every imaginable vice and craving until finally the desire the creature personally finds most appealing overwhelms its thoughts. You always know what your target wants, and, if you have the means to provide it, can offer it to the creature in exchange for a specific service. The creature can resist this effect with a successful Will saving throw, and creatures never agree if you offer services that are physically impossible or obviously suicidal, or if you lie about having the means to fulfill the desire in question. The service can never take more than a day to complete, and the affected creature gains a +2 bonus on its saving throw if the service requires more than an hour to complete.

It also says it takes 3 full rounds to complete. Does that mean if the creature is hostile it can attack you while you are completing the dance? For that matter, if the creature is fighting someone else can you perform the dance and in 3 rounds if it fails its safe it stops fighting and stands there drooling?

[CWheezy]

Yes to both

[Pizza Lord]

Corvid Black wrote:

It also says it takes 3 full rounds to complete. Does that mean if the creature is hostile it can attack you while you are completing the dance?

Nothing stops it from taking its actions while you're dancing and gyrating around. It can attack you, it can run away... it can purposefully choose to look away from you and thus not be affected (it would take concealment penalties if it still tried to attack, similar to how one would fight a creature with a gaze attack.)

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For that matter, if the creature is fighting someone else can you perform the dance and in 3 rounds if it fails its safe it stops fighting and stands there drooling?

If your target were attacking someone and after 3 rounds they failed their save they would not necessarily just stand there drooling. They would probably keep fighting and defending themselves. Only in the case of if they were attacking you and they failed and you then were able to offer them their desire would I necessarily have them stop attacking (you), since the power seems to greatly imply they know you can actually give them what they want (or the offer just fails.)

Dance of Kindled Desires wrote:

Each sway and shake of your hips calls up another temptation from the depths of Hell until your spectator, hapless and drooling, finally succumbs and freely offers up his life, honor, or very soul for just a taste of what you have proffered.

This is flavor-text, but since your question directly referenced your target as standing there drooling, I will point out that, aside from being just flavor-text, it says 'hapless and drooling' not 'helpless and drooling'. Hapless in this case meaning unfortunate (cursed, doomed, ill-fated, etc.) So while your target may have piles of gold on the brain and even be salivating at the thought of it, he'll still probably keep defending himself or attacking a foe.

Additionally, if your foe's desire is to gut you open and kill you, he'll probably just keep trying to do so... until you actually offer him the chance to do so in exchange for a service.