Alternate Bardic Performances

Level 1st; Replaces inspire courage
Action standard; Maintain No

A bard can cause targets within 60 feet to feel the weight of conscience, reducing their combat effectiveness for a short time. The bard can effect a number of targets equal to ½ his bard level (minimum 1) with a single use of inspire conscience. As the bard performs, targets are inundated with feelings of guilt and remorse over past wrong doings, taking 1d8 + 1/bard level in temporary hit point damage that lasts as long as the bard maintains the performance. Each target receives a Will save (DC = 10 + ½ the bard's level + the bard's Charisma modifier) to halve the temporary hit point damage. For every three bard levels beyond 1st, the damage is increased by an additional 1d8 (2d8 at 4th, 3d8 at 7th, 4d8 at 10th, etc.).

Level 1st; Replaces inspire courage
Action standard; Maintain Yes

A bard can perform a song so pure that it bolsters listeners against harmful effects. Allies (including the bard) within 30 feet gain a +2 morale bonus on all saves. The bonus increases by +2 for every five levels of bard beyond 1st (+4 at 6th, +6 at 11th, +8 at 16th).

Level 3rd; Replaces inspire competence;
Action standard; Maintain Yes

The bard can provoke a target into acting carelessly, lowering the targets AC and attack rolls by the bard's Cha modifier for one round. For every three levels of bard beyond 1st, the bard can target one additional creature with this ability. At the beginning of each affected creatures turn, the creature receives a Will save to resist jibe. After a successful save the target is immune to the bard's jibe for 24 hours.

The bard can use either audible or sight components; he chooses when activating the ability.

Level 3rd; Replaces inspire competence
Action standard; Maintain Yes

A bard can lure in one target he has already fascinated (see PFRPG Core Rulebook), lulling the target toward him with soothing sounds and motions. Using this ability does not disrupt the fascinate effect, but it does require a standard action to activate (as well as a free action to maintain the fascinate effect). Luring a target does not count against a bard's daily use of bardic performance. A Will save (DC = 10 + ½ the bard's level + the bard's Charisma modifier) negates the effect. If the save fails, the target takes no other action than to move directly to the nearest square adjacent to the bard and the fascinate effect is ended.

So long as the target is under the effects of lure, any overt threats (such as being attacked or moving toward a obvious spiked pit trap) allow the target to make another save to negate the effect with a +4 bonus to the save. Damage from any source negates the effect.

The effect lasts as long as the bard continues the performance up to a a maximum of 1 hour. Fascinate is an enchantment (compulsion), mind-affecting ability.

The bard can use either audible or sight components; he chooses when activating the ability.

Level 3rd; Replaces inspire competence
Action standard attack or full attack (fight defensively); Maintain Yes

A bard can make himself less of a target to enemies. When using the fight defensively action (see PFRPG Core Rulebook), the bard may choose a number of targets equal to this Cha modifier (minimum 1); these targets must make a Will save (DC = 10 + ½ the bard's level + the bard's Charisma modifier), if the save fails the target cannot attack the bard that round.

Level 3rd; Replaces inspire competence
Action immediate; Maintain Yes

All allies within 60 feet automatically stabilize as long as the bard continues this performance. At 10th level, each living ally within 60 feet with 0 or fewer hit points recovers a number of hit points each round equal to the bard's level as long as he continues this performance.

Level 6th; Replaces suggestion
Action standard; Maintain Yes

A bard can distract enemies within 30 feet, causing them to be flat-footed for one round. If the bard maintains the performance on subsequent rounds, each enemy within range receives a Will save (DC = 10 + ½ the bard's level + the bard's Charisma modifier) to resist the effect at the beginning of its turn each round. If its saving throw fails, the creature remains flat-footed for another round. If the saving throw succeeds, that creature is immune to the bards dance motley for 24 hours.

Level 6th; Replaces suggestion
Action standard; Maintain Yes

The bards soothing tale removes fatigue and exhaustion from all listeners within 30ft (including himself). No creature can be affected by epic of the lost king more than once in a 24 hour period.

Level 6th; Replaces suggestion
Action standard; Maintain Yes

A bard can perform a song to lay the undead to rest. All undead with fewer hit dice than the bard within 30 feet must make a Will save (DC = 10 + ½ the bard's level + the bard's Charisma modifier) or enter a motionless, comatose, sleep-like state, rendering them helpless. Targets will "awaken" if attacked or damaged in any way. Free-willed undead (or Intelligent undead, if you prefer) rendered helpless by song of eternal rest receive an additonal Will save from loud noises nearby. No creature can be affected by song of eternal rest more than once in a 24 hour period.

Level 6th; Replaces suggestion
Action standard; Maintain No

A bard can deafen a single target within 30 feet. The target receives a Will save (DC = 10 + ½ the bard's level + the bard's Charisma modifier); if successful, the target is deafened for 1 round, if the save fails the target is deafened for 1d4 rounds.

Level 6th; Replaces suggestion
Action immediate; Maintain No

The bard can grant one ally (but not himself) a +5 morale bonus on her next Reflex save and the evasion ability. If the ally already has evasion, she gains improved evasion instead. The ally must be within 60 feet and the bard must be able to see whatever threatens the ally.

Level 8th; Replaces dirge of doom
Action standard; Maintain Yes

A bard can cause his enemies to become confused. All enemies within 30 feet gain the confused condition for one round. If the bard maintains the performance on subsequent rounds, each enemy within range receives a Will save to resist the effect at the beginning of its turn each round. If its saving throw fails, the creature remains confused for another round. If the saving throw succeeds, that creature is immune to the bards discordant performance for 24 hours. Discordant performance is a mind-affecting ability.

Level 8th; Replaces dirge of doom
Action standard; Maintain No

A bard can cause invisible creatures near him to become visible through the glow of song. This performance functions as the glitterdust spell (caster level equals the characters bard level), but the area is a 30-ft spread centered on the bard. Allies of the bard are immune to the blinding effects of the performance, but enemies receive a Will save (DC = 10 + ½ the bard's level + the bard's Charisma modifier) as normal.

Level 9th; Replaces inspire greatness
Action standard; Maintain Yes

A bard can call kindle ancestral bonds with a mystical chant, granting an ally within 30 feet or himself a +2 Str, Dex, or Con and a +2 to Int, Wis, or Cha (target player's choice) for as long as the bard maintains the performance. For every three bard levels beyond 9, the bard can target one additional ally with a single use of this ability (two at 12, three at 15, and four at 18). Ancestral chant is a mind-affecting ability.

Level 12th; Replaces soothing performance
Action immediate; Maintain No

The bard or one ally within 30ft gains DR 5/ for one round.

Level 14th; Replaces frightening tune
Action full; Maintain No

A bard can use his performance to paralyze his enemies. All enemies within 30 feet must succeed a Will save (DC = 10 + ½ the bard's level + the bard's Charisma modifier) or become paralyzed for 1 round. If the saving throw succeeds, that creature is immune to the bards paralyzing show for 24 hours.

Level 14th; Replaces frightening tune
Action standard; Maintain No

A bard can steal the targets will to live with a simple song. A single target within 30 feet must succeed a Will save (DC = 10 + ½ the bard's level + the bard's Charisma modifier) or take 1d4 temporary Wisdom damage. If the saving throw succeeds, the target is immune to the bards song of the damned for 24 hours.

Level 15th; Replaces ispire heroics
Action full; Maintain No

A bard can create an effect equivalent to the break enchantment spell (caster level equals the characters bard level) on a single target within 30 feet. A bard cant use song of freedom on himself.

Level 15th; Replaces inspire heroics
Action standard; Maintain Yes

A bard can grant spell resistance to one target within 30 feet (including himself), as per the spell resistance spell (caster level equals the bards level). For every three bard levels the character attains beyond 15th, he can grant spell resistance to an additional creature.

Level 18th; Replaces mass suggestion
Action standard; Maintain Yes

This ability functions just like lure (see above), but allows a bard of 18th level or higher to attempt to lure simultaneously any number of creatures that he has already fascinated. Great lure is an enchantment (compulsion), mind-affecting ability.

Level 18th; Replaces mass suggestion
Action standard; Maintain no

A bard can repel extraplanar creatures, as per the banishment spell (caster level equals the bards levels in bard). The targets receive a Will save (DC = 10 + ½ the bard's level + the bard's Charisma modifier) to resist the effect; if successful the targets are immune to the bards song of banishment for 24 hours.