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Do Bard Songs Stack?

Discussion in 'Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition' started by Sorvo, Jul 9, 2016.

  1. Sorvo

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    Say I had 5 Skalds singing would the main char get a +10 to hit and damage +AC?
     
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    Yep. You can simply summon imagse (Mislead, Simulacrum) and have those sing in order to have multiple bard song effects up, though.
     
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    I thought they made it non-stackable after the SPL file was externalized. Though I suppose an orchestra is usually more inspiring than a single musician.
     
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    It's one of those we-know-it's-cheesy-but-we-don't-really-know-if-it's-an-exploit kind of things, and over the years Beamdog has grown enough as a developer to leave things like this alone.
    He may surprise us yet.
     
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    It doesn't matter if it's cheesy, all it matter is if it's RAW.
     
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    Hey, My initials. Thanks for thinking of me Ken :)
     
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    I don't mind multiple bard songs overlapping so much - as a bard can't take other actions while singing there's going to be diminishing returns as less and less of your characters are actively making use of the stacked bonuses.
    Using simulacrums/projected images can get you around this limitation however, is something i personally would count as gaming the system/cheesing, so i wouldn't mind them patching that.
     
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