What swordjockey said, or role play, like you said.
Several bard abilities and spells affect anyone who hears them. Having dozens of people around could come in handy.
Gather a crowd and incite them to riot!
Down with the municipality!
On a more reasonable note, a high charisma character with the attention of a crowd is in their element. Use and abuse the situation.
At last a guaranteed crowd for performance combat!
At the very least you have a lot of witnesses if you want something made public.
Isn't this power from an archetype whose whole schtick is inciting riots? Hard to do if you dont have a crowd
So it essentially provides no quantitative benefit. That is a head-scratching replacement for something as valuable as lore master.
It doesn't need to give raw numbers to be useful. It's certainly situational but the ability to summon dozens of hostages, witnesses, allies, pieces of human cover, etc. is very useful in the right circumstances.
This "power" is yet another example of hiding something behind a feat or class ability which really ought to be available to anyone, using their CHA and perhaps perform (oratory) or similar skills.
The thing that bothers me the most, is that it doesn't have a "normal" line. Anyone should be able to gather a crowd, and often enough, a crowd will form when you don't really want them too, or just aren't trying at all. I can see this class archetype getting a huge bonus to it, in various ways, but the mechanic really should be accompanied by a "normal" line showing how any Tom, Dick or Harry can try it too.
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This "power" is yet another example of hiding something behind a feat or class ability which really ought to be available to anyone, using their CHA and perhaps perform (oratory) or similar skills.
The thing that bothers me the most, is that it doesn't have a "normal" line. Anyone should be able to gather a crowd, and often enough, a crowd will form when you don't really want them too, or just aren't trying at all. I can see this class archetype getting a huge bonus to it, in various ways, but the mechanic really should be accompanied by a "normal" line showing how any Tom, Dick or Harry can try it too.
It's way too late in the game for anything this reasonable. You can't wipe your own ass without a Feat or class feature, and it takes a three Feat chain to get somebody else to do it for you.
At least it's something potentially useful.
At the very least you have a lot of witnesses if you want something made public.
Or a lot of witnesses on YOU while your buddies do some nefarious stuff 'in plain sight' since all eyes are focused elsewhere. :)
It's also a good way to mass-murder, if you're so inclined. Your Necromancer Wizard buddy is just one fireball away from a lot of raw material.
Or you can press-gang the lot of them in your militia, to fend off fireballin' Wizards and their Bard buddies.
Normally I'd just role play a great performance check for this but for some reason it has to be made a specific class ability so I guess you can't draw crowds without it.
Cast Mass Suggestion and now you have an old fashioned lynch mob.
Normally I'd just role play a great performance check for this but for some reason it has to be made a specific class ability so I guess you can't draw crowds without it.
Cast Mass Suggestion and now you have an old fashioned lynch mob.
the archetype the ability comes from also has a incite mob power at 6, and a mass suggestion power with a 1 day duration