As a move action, she can prepare to cast a spell by giving voice to the song of power.
#SUBLIME CHORD 3.5 HOW TO#
Song of Arcane Power (Su): A sublime chord of 2nd level or higher with 12 or more ranks in a Perform skill learns how to use her bardic music to assist her spellcasting. A sublime chord adds one-half her class level (rounded down) to her bard level to determine her number of daily uses of bardic music. Each use of a sublime chord song expends one daily use of the character?s bardic music ability. These effects function just as the bardic music effects described in the Player?s Handbook. She can add her sublime chord class level to her bardic knowledge checks, so her bardic knowledge checks have a bonus equal to her bard level + her sublime chord level + her Int modifier.īardic Music: A sublime chord expands her repertoire of bardic music to encompass new songs or poetics of strange and wondrous power. A sublime chord prepares and casts spells just as a sorcerer does, including the ability to replace a known sublime chord spell with a new spell at every even-numbered class levelīardic Knowledge: A sublime chord continues to collect the odd bits of lore and knowledge that bards acquire. If she had more than one arcane spellcasting class before becoming a sublime chord, she must choose to which class to add her sublime chord levels for the purpose of determining her sublime chord spellcaster level. A sublime chord?s caster level for both her sublime chord spells and the spells she gains from other arcane spellcasting classes is determined by adding her sublime chord level to her level in another arcane spellcasting class. A sublime chord can choose spells from the sorcerer/wizard spell list or the bard spell list if a spell appears on both lists at different levels, she uses the bard version of the spell.
Bonus spells are based on Charisma, and saving throws against these spells have a DC of 10 + spell level + the sublime chord?s Cha modifier. To cast a sublime chord spell, a character must have a Charisma score of at least 10 + the spell?s level, so if she has a Charisma of 13 or lower, she cannot cast any sublime chord spells. Spells per Day: A sublime chord has the ability to cast a small number of arcane spells, all of 4th level or higher. Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Sublime chords gain no proficiency with any weapon or armor.Īs with bard spells, the somatic components for a sublime chords spells do not incur an arcane spell failure chance as normal for arcane spells if the sublime chord is wearing light armor. Spells: Able to cast 3rd-level arcane spells. Skills: Knowledge (arcana) 10 ranks, Listen 10 ranks, Perform 7 ranks, Profession (astrologer) 3 ranks, Spellcraft 3 ranks