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Performance
(Cha)
Source
Core Rulebook pg. 250
2.0
You are skilled at a form of performance, using your talents to impress a crowd or make a living.
Performance Trained Actions
Earn Income
by staging a performance.
Basic Competence
Some performances require you to be more than just charismatic, and if you don't meet the demands of the art form or the audience, the GM might apply a penalty based on the relevant ability score. For example, if you're dancing and have a negative Dexterity modifier, you might take a penalty to your attempt at dancing. Likewise, if you are orating and have a negative Intelligence modifier, you might have to hope your raw Charisma can overcome the penalties from your intellectual shortcomings—or ask someone to help write your speeches!
Performance Traits
When you use an action that utilizes the Performance skill, it gains one or more traits relevant to the type of performance. The GM might change these depending on the circumstances, but the most common performance-based traits are listed below.
Performance Traits
Performance
Additional Traits
Act or perform comedy
auditory
,
linguistic
, and
visual
Dance
move
and
visual
Play an instrument
Auditory
and
manipulate
Orate or sing
Auditory
and
linguistic
Related Feats
To see a list of Feats related to Performance,
click here
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Performance Untrained Actions
Perform
Concentrate
Source
Core Rulebook pg. 250
2.0
When making a brief performance—one song, a quick dance, or a few jokes—you use the Perform action. This action is most useful when you want to prove your capability or impress someone quickly. Performing rarely has an impact on its own, but it might influence the DCs of subsequent Diplomacy checks against the observers—or even change their attitudes—if the GM sees fit.
Critical Success
Your performance impresses the observers, and they’re likely to share stories of your ability.
Success
You prove yourself, and observers appreciate the quality of your performance.
Failure
Your performance falls flat.
Critical Failure
You demonstrate only incompetence.
Sample Perform Tasks
Untrained
audience of commoners
Trained
audience of artisans
Expert
audience of merchants or minor nobles
Master
audience of high nobility or minor royalty
Legendary
audience of major royalty or otherworldly beings