Perform

(Cha)
Like Craft, Knowledge, and Profession, Perform is actually a number of separate skills.

You could have several Perform skills, each with its own ranks, each purchased as a separate skill.

Each of the nine categories of the Perform skill includes a variety of methods, instruments, or techniques, a small list of which is provided for each category below.


 * Act (comedy, drama, mime)
 * Comedy (buffoonery, limericks, joke-telling)
 * Dance (ballet, waltz, jig)
 * Keyboard instruments (harpsichord, piano, pipe organ)
 * Oratory (epic, ode, storytelling)
 * Percussion instruments (bells, chimes, drums, gong)
 * String instruments (fiddle, harp, lute, mandolin)
 * Wind instruments (flute, pan pipes, recorder, shawm, trumpet)
 * Sing (ballad, chant, melody)

Check

You can impress audiences with your talent and skill.

A masterwork musical instrument gives you a +2 circumstance bonus on Perform checks that involve its use.

Action

Varies. Trying to earn money by playing in public requires anywhere from an evening’s work to a full day’s performance. The bard’s special Perform-based abilities are described in that class’s description.

Try Again

Yes. Retries are allowed, but they don’t negate previous failures, and an audience that has been unimpressed in the past is likely to be prejudiced against future performances. (Increase the DC by 2 for each previous failure.)