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Thog 09-11-06, 05:01 PM

MUSIC OF CREATION Bards have a unique way of tapping into the magic that pervades Eberron: through music. Some bards claim that the Dragon Above sang the world into being at the dawn of time, and that their music is an echo of that powerful tune of creation. Reflecting this connection to the forces of creation, bards have access to a number of feats that extend the powers of their bardic music. A bard can take these feats any time she would normally gain a feat, or can choose one of them as a bonus feat instead of gaining a new form of bardic music at 3rd. 6th. 9th, 12th. 15th. or 18th level. These bard feats are: Arcane Accompaniment PH2 74 You infuse your bardic music with magical energy, allowing its effects to continue even as you attend to other tasks. Arcane Flourish PH2 74 You use your magical abilities to improve your performance talents. Battle Dancer PH2 75 You strike at your foes in time with your bardic music. Chant of Fortitude CAd 113 You can channel the power of your bardic music to sustain your allies, allowing them to function even after receiving wounds that would cause others to falter. Courageous Rally HB 97 You can rally demoralized foes with your bardic music. Enchanting Song RS 139 You can channel the power of your bardic music to temporarily increase the power of your enchantment spells. Extra Music CAd 109, DD 50, ECS 52 You can use your bardic music more often than you otherwise could. Green Ear CAd 110 Your bardic music can affect plant creatures. Haunting Melody ECS 54, HH 123 You can use your music to inspire fear. Inspire Spellpower RS 141 You can use your bardic music to increase the power of your allies' spells. Ironskin Chant CAd 113 You can channel the power of your bardic music to enable yourself to ignore minor injuries. Lingering Song CAd 111 Your inspirational bardic music stays with the listeners long after the last note has died away. Lyric Spell CAd 113 You can channel the power of your bardic music into your magic, allowing you to expend uses of your bardic music ability to cast spells. Metamagic Song RS 142 You can channel the power of your bardic music into your magic, allowing you to pay the cost of metamagic feats by spending uses of your bardic music ability. Misleading Song RS 142 You can channel the power of your bardic music to temporarily increase the power of your illusion spells. Music of Growth ECS 57 Your music can enhance the power of animals and plant creatures. Music of Making ECS 57 Echoing the music of creation, your own performance enhances any process of creation. Music of the Outer Spheres LoM 181 You can use your bardic music to create discordant, insane sounds. Practiced Musician * Your effective bard level for gaining bardic music effects increases by 3. Requiem LM 29 Your bardic music affects undead creatures. Shadow Song Rac 168 A dark legacy of the Shadowking's ambitions is the shadow of sorrow that cloaks many Tethyrian songs and ballads. Some bards have learned to infuse their performances with the sense of loss and suffering that suffuses the Shadow Weave. Song of the Heart ECS 60 Your bardic music reaches the depths of its listeners' hearts. Song of the White Raven ToB 32 The White Raven discipline shows you how to rouse dedication and fervor within your allies' hearts. Soothe the Beast ECS 60 Echoing the music of creation, your bardic music has powers to calm animals. Subsonics CAd 112 Your bardic music can affect even those who do not consciously hear it. Sunken Song Sto 94 You can project your voice underwater. Talfirian Song Rac 170 You can use the power of your bardic music to enhance your illusion spells. Wingsinger Sto 94 You can use song or a wind instrument for bardic music to compel the winds to obey you. Epic: Deafening Song EL 52 Your bardic music deafens those nearby. Epic Inspiration EL 54 Your bardic music provides greater inspiration than normally possible. Group Inspiration CAd 192, EL 57 Your bardic powers can inspire more allies than normal. Hindering Song EL 57 Your bardic music interferes with opposing spellcasters. Inspire Excellence EL 61 You can improve the abilities of your comrades through your performance. Lasting Inspiration DMG 210, EL 61 Your songs continue to inspire allies long after your words have faded. Music of the Gods EL 63 You can use your bardic music to influence creatures immune to mind-affecting effects. Ranged Inspiration EL 65 You can use your bardic music at a greater range than normal. Rapid Inspiration EL 66 You can inspire your allies with bardic music more quickly than normal. Reactive Countersong EL 66 You can use countersong as a reaction to a sonic or language-dependent magical attack. Perform Feats: Artist FRCS 33 You come from a culture in which the arts, philosophy, and music have a prominent place in society. Artist OA 61 You claim descent from Doji, who was known as a creator of culture and civilization. Artist PG 33 Your people are renowned for their skill at story and song. Combat Panache PH2 93 Your glowing personality and sharp performance abilities allow you to navigate the battlefield on sheer chutzpah alone. Dragonsong Dr 105 Your song or poetics echo the power of the dragonsong, an ancient style of vocal performance created by dragons in the distant past. Harem Trained Rac 164 You have been trained to serve as a jhasin (if male) or jhasina (if female) and are well versed in song, music, dance, art, the recitation of great literature, the art of massage, and other duties of the harem. Snowflake Wardance Fr 50 You have mastered the snowflake wardance, a mystical style of fighting with slashing weapons that allows you to leap and almost seem to float haphazardly across the battlefield like a whirling, razor-edged snowflake. Versatile Performer CAd 112 You are skilled at many kinds of performances. PRACTICED MUSICIAN Your bardic music is more effective. Prerequisite: Cha 15, Perform (any) 6, bardic music. Benefit: Your effective bard level increases by 3 for the purposes of what bardic music abilites you can use, and the value of the bonus granted by inspire courage. This benefit can't increase your effective bard level to higher than your Hit Dice. However, even if you can't benefit from the full bonus immediately, if you later gain Hit Dice from classes other than bard, you might be able to apply the rest of the bonus. For example, a gnome 4th-level bard/2nd-level rogue who selects this feat would incease her effective bard level from 4th to 6th (since she has 6 Hit Dice), and she might gain the suggestion bardic music ability, since the minimum bard level required for that ability is 6th. If she later gained another rogue level, she would gain the remainer of the bonus from this feat, and her effective bard level would become 7th (since she now has 7 Hit Dice). If she later gained a bard level, the bonus from her inspire courage would incease to +2, since that increase is granted to a bard at 8th level. This feat increases your effective bard level only for purposes of gaining and improving bardic music abilities. It does not affect any other bardic abilities or spell casting, nor does it add uses per day of bardic music. The character must still have the minimum number of ranks in the Perform skill to qualify for each bardic music ability. If the character does not have the required number of ranks in at least one Perform skill, she does not gain that bardic music ability until she acquires the needed ranks. Special: You may select this feat multiple times. Its effects stack. If you use the Music of Creation rules from Eberron, new bardic music abilies gained through this feat can be swapped for bonus bardic music feats, but this feat cannot be selected from swaping an ability so gained.