Skills/Perform

You are skilled at one form of entertainment, from singing to acting to playing an instrument. 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 of the nine categories of the Perform skill includes a variety of methods, instruments, or techniques, a small sample of which is provided for each category below.


 * Act (comedy, drama, pantomime)
 * 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, trumpet)
 * Sing (ballad, chant, melody)

Common Uses
You can impress audiences with your talent and skill in your chosen performance type.

Action/Retry
Trying to earn money by playing in public requires anywhere from an evening’s work to a full day’s performance.

You may retry a failed Perform check, but a new check does not negate previous failures, and an audience that has been unimpressed in the past is likely to be prejudiced against future performances, Increasing the DC by 2 for each previous failure.

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