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| Inspire an ally to go beyond their capabilities with your performance They can add a +1d8 bonus to their next Attack Roll, Ability Check, or Saving Throw
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Bonus Action 
Bardic InspirationBardic 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.
Bardic inspiration Information
- Inspire an ally with your performance
- They can add a +1d8 bonus to their next Attack Roll, Ability Check, or Saving Throw
Until Long Rest- Type: Actions
Range: 18m
How to unlock Bardic inspiration
Bardic inspiration can be unlocked by the following classes:
Bardic inspiration Tips & Notes
- Notes & Tips go here
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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.
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