Q 141: Is there anyway to make constructs affected by bardic music? Specifically Astral constructs (coming from a shaper/constructor) gaining the benefit of dragonfire inspiration.
Technically DFA isn't Mind-Affecting. Read it closely.
Inspire Courage itself is mind-affecting (like most if not all bardic music effects), and Dragonfire Inspiration is a modification of that ability. Thus it's still mind-affecting.
Additionally, all of that business about morale bonuses always being mind-affecting is just an assumption the designers made. And it's a poor one; sure, bardic music is mind-affecting, and so is Good Hope. But Barbarian Rage (core!) isn't along with Aura of Vitality (SC), Valiant Fury (SC and CWar before that), and Valiant Spirit (MoI).
Oh, and:
- The DMG itself says nothing special about morale bonuses in the Bonuses list (page 21).
- The PHB states that nonintelligent creatures cannot benefit, but makes no connection to the mind-affecting descriptor.
- The Rules Compendium states that "such bonuses come from mind-affecting effects" (as above, false), but does not quite state that morale bonuses ARE mind-affecting effects.
Yeah, it's just a silly oversight based on common sources of morale bonuses. (Astral Constructs are still immune to all of them as they lack Int scores.)