Skyrim Mod:Bards College Expansion/Bardic Inspiration

Bardic Inspiration is a special mechanic in Bards College Expansion that works as a sort of parallel skill to facilitate a Skyrim Bard play style. Experience points for Inspiration are gained from successfully passing Speech checks, reading skill books, discovering locations, playing instruments, listening to lectures at the Bards College, and using Shouts. Gaining 100 experience points gives one Bardic Inspiration. The accrued Bardic Inspirations can be seen in the player's inventory among Miscellaneous items.

Action	Experience Value
Reading a Skill Book	15
Passing a Speech check	10
Learning a Word of Power	20
Unlocking a Word of Power	20
Mastering a Shout	50
Using a Shout	0.2
Using a Chant	0.6
Playing an instrument	1
Discovering a location	10
Attending a Bards College lecture	1
Winning a Duel of Wit	20
Defeating Loliah	100
Composing a Ballad	85
Completing one of Sledrig's quests	100
Following a lead in Troubadour's Trial	15

Skill Perks

After completing both The Way of the Voice and Music, Merriment and Muckrakers, the player is granted access to Sleidrig's Sanctuary where a mural serves as a special skill perk tree.

Draconic Knowledge

Spiritual Connection

Empowered    Voice   

Thu'um Mastery

Meditative Chant

Chant Mastery

Dragon's Roar

   Entertainer

Triumphant Melodies

Diminished Presence

Battle Bard

Dragon's Dirge

Perk mural

The perks on the left side are related to the Thu'um, while perks on the right side are related to bardic music. The two perks on the center serve as entry points to the tree, and at least one of them must be unlocked to access the sides of the tree. Unlocking the first rank of a perk always costs one Bardic Inspiration, however the following ranks can require several. In total, 75 Bardic Inspirations are needed to fully unlock all perks from the tree.

Perk	Rank	Description	ID	Cost	Perk Req.
Draconic Knowledge	1	Skills improve 0.25% faster for each Word of Power known.	xx022A18	1	-
	2	Skills improve 0.5% faster for each Word of Power known.	xx022A19	7
Spiritual Connection	1	Stamina and Mana regenerate 5% faster when traveling with a follower.	xx022A1A	1	-
	2	Stamina and Mana regenerate 10% faster when traveling with a follower.	xx022A1B	3
	3	Stamina and Mana regenerate 15% faster when traveling with a follower.	xx022A1C	5
Empowered Voice	1	The power of many shouts is increased 25%.	xx022A2D	1	Draconic Knowledge or Spiritual Connection
	2	The power of many shouts is increased 50%.	xx022A2E	5
Thu'um Mastery	1	Time between shouts is reduced 10%.	xx01FC70	1	Empowered Voice
	2	Time between shouts is reduced 20%.	xx022A24	1
	3	Time between shouts is reduced 30%.	xx022A25	2
	4	Time between shouts is reduced 40%.	xx022A26	2
	5	Time between shouts is reduced 50%.	xx022A27	3
Meditative Chant	1	Doubles time before the next shout in a Chant must be cast.	xx022A22	1	Thu'um Mastery
	2	Triples time before the next shout in a Chant must be cast.	xx022A23	3
Chant Mastery	1	Resource cost of using the Cadence Rod is reduced 10%.	xx022A1D	1	Meditative Chant
	2	Resource cost of using the Cadence Rod is reduced 20%.	xx022A1E	1
	3	Resource cost of using the Cadence Rod is reduced 30%.	xx022A1F	2
	4	Resource cost of using the Cadence Rod is reduced 40%.	xx022A20	2
	5	Resource cost of using the Cadence Rod is reduced by half.	xx022A21	3
Dragon's Roar	1	Shouting staggers all enemies around you.	xx022A2F	1	Chant Mastery
Entertainer	1	Gold received when playing music for crowds is increased 25%.	xx022A30	1	Draconic Knowledge or Spiritual Connection
	2	Gold received when playing music for crowds is increased 50%.	xx022A31	1
	3	Gold received when playing music for crowds is increased 75%.	xx022A32	2
	4	Gold received when playing music for crowds is doubled.	xx022A33	2
Triumphant Melodies	1	Inspiration buffs from music playing are improved 20%.	xx022A36	1	Entertainer
	2	Inspiration buffs from music playing are improved 40%.	xx022A37	1
	3	Inspiration buffs from music playing are improved 60%.	xx022A38	2
	4	Inspiration buffs from music playing are improved 80%.	xx022A39	2
	5	Inspiration buffs from music playing are twice as effective.	xx022A3A	3
Diminished Presence	1	When playing music in combat, you will be less likely to be attacked if your followers are fighting.	xx022A34	1	Triumphant Melodies
	2	When playing music in combat, you will almost never be attacked if your followers are fighting.	xx022A35	3
Battle Bard	1	While you play music during combat, your followers gain additional Empowered effects.	xx022A3B	1	Diminished Presence
	2	While you play music during combat, your followers gain additional Empowered effects. Empowered effects are now twice as powerful.	xx022A3C	3
	3	While you play music during combat, your followers gain additional Empowered effects. Empowered effects are now three times as powerful.	xx022A3D	5
Dragon's Dirge	1	Using this ability causes your music to attract a Dragon.	xx022A3E	1	Battle Bard

Draconic Knowledge

The first rank works by increments of four Words of Power known, giving a 1% increase, with an upper cap of 25% reached at 100 known Words or more. The second rank works in increment of two Words of Power known, however with additional bumps for 14 known Words (8%), 26 known Words (15%), and 66 known Words (36%), making the final cap at 100 known Words or more to be 53% instead of 50%. This is caused by duplicated perk effects and likely unintended.

Notes

Bardic Inspiration (xxxx01FC6B)
Type	Misc. Item
Editor ID	kgcBard_SkillCurrency
Statistics
Weight	0	Value	0

Bardic Inspiration

The inventory model for the Inspiration point is the bouncing orb from Yngol Barrow.