Battle Performance Feats

What if a bard wants an instrument that is also a weapon? Then she could find these useful.

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Battle Performance (Combat)

You can play your instrument and use it as a weapon at the same time.

Prerequisites: Proficiency in a musical instrument weapon or Catch Off-Guard and Equipment Trick (instrument), bardic performance or raging song class feature, Perform 1 rank.

Benefit: Whenever you make a full attack with a musical instrument used as an improvised weapon or a normal weapon while you are maintaining a bardic performance, you can maintain the bardic performance for that round without expending one of your rounds of performance for the day. In addition, while you wield a musical instrument as a weapon, the time required to begin a bardic performance or switch from one bardic performance to another is reduced by one step (from a standard action to a move action, from a move action to a swift action, and from a swift action to an immediate action).

Musician’s Grace (Combat)

You can dance and flourish while smashing your enemies on the head with a lute or a flute.

Prerequisites: Proficiency in a musical instrument weapon or Catch Off-Guard and Equipment Trick (instrument), Weapon Finesse, bardic performance or raging song class feature, Perform 5 ranks.

Benefit: When using a musical instrument as an improvised weapon or a normal weapon, you can use your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier on melee attack and damage rolls. A light or one-handed instrument weapon is treated as a light or one-handed piercing weapon for all feats and class abilities that require such a weapon (such as a duelist’s precise strike ability). The instrument must be for a creature of your size.