So I have a level 2 bard in my party. When he activates Inspire Courage, it works just fine: aura boots up, characters get the bonus. But every 30 seconds, the buff just... stops working. It doesn't "deactivate": the icon is still glowing on the toolbar, it just provides no bonus and no buff icons on my characters. If I click it, it deactivates - stops glowing. Click it again, it starts right back up, working fine.

Constantly reactivating would be a complete chore - it's supposed to be on until I turn it off! What's up here?

EDIT: It also stops working in this mana on save/load. The only mod I have installed is the Icewind Dale campaign.

No, it's not. Each use of Bard Song lasts 60 seconds by default (or 90 seconds with Lingering Song). You need to activate it every minute or so when it wears off.

Bardic inspirations are not the same as bard songs. Inspirations are constant and not limited in the number of uses per day.

As Touch says, that is definetely not the case MagicalMaster. Inspirations are permanent, toggled abilities. They are programmet to "re-activate" each 4 seconds, reapplying their effects. In my case, this isn't happening properly.

Some updates:

1) I can only replicate the behaviour on save/load. So it's every time you load, it happens.

2) It doesn't seem to happen in the Storm of Zehir campaign, only in the IWD mod. Do mods save in a different way?

3) The behaviour ONLY happens in my current IWD game - starting a new IWD game and I can save/load with fine with Inspire Courage. What the heck? Can it have something to do with my 'Behaviour' settings on the character?

If it is a mod you're playing outside of the campaign, then it is quite possible the author of that mod has made changes to particular class features to help balance out the module they built.

Oh, so this is NWN2. Should mention that next time.