Bardic InspirationClass Actions Inspire an ally to add a bonus to their next Attack Roll, Ability Check, or Saving Throw.
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18mBardic inspiration is an Action in Baldur's Gate 3. Actions can be used in both exploration and combat to maneuver across the battlefield or to harm or aid Characters. The actions that a Character can perform are based on their Class and Equipment.
Baldur's Gate 3 Bardic Inspiration Information
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Inspire an ally to add a bonus to their next Attack Roll, Ability Check, or Saving Throw.
Bardic Attack: Adds Bardic Inspiration bonus to the next Attack Roll. 
Reaction.
Bardic Defence: Adds Bardic Inspiration bonus to the next Saving Throw. Reaction.
Bardic Roll: Adds Bardic Inspiration bonus to the next Ability Check. Toggeable.
Duration: Until Long Rest
Range: 18m- Type: Bonus Action Bardic Inspiration
Bardic Inspiration by Level
- Bard Level 1: +1d6 bonus, usable 3 times per
Long Rest. - Bard Level 5: +1d8 bonus, usable 4 times per Short Rest.
- Bard Level 10: +1d10 bonus, usable 5 times per Short Rest.
Bardic Inspiration by Bardic College
- Each Bard Subclass adds a new way their Inspiration can be used:
- Cutting Words (Lore): You learn how to use your wit to distract, confuse, and otherwise sap the confidence and competence of others.
- Blade Flourishes (Swords): You learn to conduct impressive displays of martial prowess and speed.
- Combat Inspirations (Valour): You learn to inspire others in battle.
How to unlock Bardic Inspiration in BG3
- Bardic Inspiration can be unlocked by the following classes:
Bardic Inspiration Tips & Notes
- Unlike D&D5e, the number of uses is not based on your Charisma Modifier.
- The character who receives the Bardic inspiration gets to choose when to use it.
- By default it is automatically used as a reaction on the first possible occasion, if you wish to control it check the Ask box in your Spellbook reactions tab.
AnonymousDoes the person who receive inspiration get to choose when to use it?
- Anonymous
It stinks that this can't be applied on the bard themselves. It makes bard being the lead talker less useful than someone else with similar proficiencies when it comes to ability checks.
- Anonymous
currently bugged for me such that after a character has had inspiration used on them, consumes it, and then gets inspiration again, they cannot use the buff anymore, even with reactions set to ask and enabled. they have the buff, but the bardic inspiration filter shows 0 charges
- Anonymous
Number of uses is based on class level. I had 20 Charisma at level 4 and still only 3 uses. Went to 4 uses when I reached level 5. Will probably reach 5 uses at level 10 given the trend
- Anonymous
I know this is beating a dead horse but this is the feature that gets hit the worst by Larian's awful approach to triggered abilities (until counterspell is added lol).
Suppose you are a struggling fighter and practically every roll you make requires a 11+ to succeed.
Like all of the BG3 triggered effects, this immediately has a 50% chance of being wasted (i.e. you succeed without needing to add the bonus), on top of a 32.5% chance that the bonus will be insufficient (you roll 1-4 or 5-9 and a bad d6) meaning that it is only useful 17.5% of the time, which is a pretty ****ing awful rate.
Now consider the possibility that you only use it after rolling (as is in the SRD) - in this case you never waste it on an already succeeding or irretrievably failing roll, so the 50% of 11+ and 20% of 4- are removed from the probability space, making your 17.5% into a whopping 58.33%! Furthermore, you can actually save it to use on a Dex save against that incoming Disintegrate rather than being forced to opportunity attack a turned undead and waste inspiration on it.
While this is simplistic, ignoring the possibility of simply taking the fail on a roll of 5 and saving for a more likely success, and the possibility that you incorrectly guess the DC or AC (not too likely given how public most of BG3 stats are), it demonstrates just how much worse this feature is due to the removal of triggered ability choices. The chance of 17.5% to be wasted in BG3 is also an upper bound! For an exceptionally easy check it can be as low as 5% and for an exceptionally difficult attack roll it goes down to 0.83%!
While the removal of triggers is a pretty blanket nerf, it really does **** on any party with a bard in it, turning their core feature from a life saving game changer into literally doing nothing 82.5% of the time.
bardic inspiration charges scale with character level, not bard level.
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