Talk:Enhanced Bard Song/@comment-161.97.227.195-20180126140126/@comment-11141165-20180126164426

A character with +20 to hit would pretty much always hit anything (except on a critical miss) which is qualitatively different from increasing the to hit of 5 characters by +4. So looking at it this way, by adding all the individual bonuses together, doesn't really work. It works for the damage adjustments, but not the other things.

Especially not for the AC. A character with -20 AC can in most circumstances only be hit on a critical hit, so he is as close to invulnerable as possible. That would be seriously more powerful than 5 characters that get -4 to AC.

Another thing to consider is that a party with 5 characters who all fight mainly with weapons is probably not that common.