Is there a way a bard sing really loud?

[With a box]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0445.html
is this comic, :elan: sang "really loud" so can be heard and clamed entire battlefield.
is there a way to optimized to a shout (or bardic song) can be heard that far?
(for size of battlefield (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0422.html))

[AvatarVecna]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0445.html
is this comic, :elan: sang "really loud" so can be heard and clamed entire battlefield.
is there a way to optimized to a shout (or bardic song) can be heard that far?
(for size of battlefield (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0422.html))

Although both the name of the item and the book it's from escape me ATM, I recall there being some sort of giant magical horn-like instrument that could be heard within a range measured in miles. I think it was supposed to be a D&D version of some giant (like, meters long) horn instrument from some European country that I can't remember at 3 in the morning an alphorn! That's what it's called.

EDIT: Okay, so it looks like there's three options available to you for increasing a Bard's range for bardic music (at least, 3 that I've found):

1. Use an alphorn; those things can be heard for miles through the mountains, and I think there's a magic one hidden in some splatbook.

2. In Stormwrack, there's a magic item called the Admiral's Bicorn that makes it possible for someone to hear you up to a mile away100 ft away (I looked it up; it's less impressive than I remembered, although it does grant all allies within 100 ft a +2 moral bonus to attack rolls).

3. There's a Bard 2/Cleric 2 spell from Heroes of Battle called "Resounding Voice" that makes your voice clearly audible from up to 100 ft/CL away. You could either cast the spell or make a permanent magic item of it.

[Hrugner]

you could use a signal horn, since it requires a perform check I only assume the effects of the performance would carry as well. It's cheap, non magical, and most people will boost perception enough that 2 miles is a likely outcome.


this is the pathfinder entry for it.

SIGNAL HORN
Price 1 gp; Weight 2 lbs.
Sounding a horn requires a DC 10 Perform (wind instruments) check and can convey concepts such as "Attack!", "Help!", "Advance!", "Retreat!", "Fire!", and "Alarm!" The report of a signal horn can be clearly heard (Perception DC 0) up to a half-mile distant. For each quarter-mile beyond, Perception checks to hear the horn take a –1 penalty

[Hiro Quester]

Make your inspiring bardic music using Perform (wind instrument) bagpipes. They are designed to be heard very well across a battlefield.

[EastbySoutheast]

There is a spell called amplify that makes the listen check -20 to hear something. It lasts a minute per level and is a bard spell which can be centred on yourself...

It becomes a little bit of DM's discression on how much difference this would make to affect a range but... Due to the ruling with a DC 0 Listen check you could hear the bard 'talking' from 200 feet away, if he's shouting you're gonna be able to reach a much greater range
Hope that helps

[Saintheart]

Make your inspiring bardic music using Perform (wind instrument) bagpipes. They are designed to be heard very well across a battlefield.

Or Perform (drums). War drums can be heard a long way off too.

[Optimator]

There is a spell in Heroes of Battle that makes one's voice heard for some huge radius. Something like 100 feet per level. That should make Inspire Courage effect entire armies quite easily.

[Jack_Simth]

There is a spell called amplify that makes the listen check -20 to hear something. It lasts a minute per level and is a bard spell which can be centred on yourself...

It becomes a little bit of DM's discression on how much difference this would make to affect a range but... Due to the ruling with a DC 0 Listen check you could hear the bard 'talking' from 200 feet away, if he's shouting you're gonna be able to reach a much greater range
Hope that helps

Amplify, Magic of Faerun, Bard-1.

[Blackhawk748]

Make your inspiring bardic music using Perform (wind instrument) bagpipes. They are designed to be heard very well across a battlefield.

Seconding the Bagpipes, as a bonus they sound awesome