Bardic performances above 30...

[Henry]

Give it up for KICS!

Knights In Cthulu's Service!

Oh, don't tell me you all play metallica or Iron Maiden softly in the background while your PC's are adventuring on the Nine Hells...

 

[jester47]

Extraplanar attention does not mean they show up. Also, the D20 system is written in such a way that after 10th what you roll for a skill check hardly matters most of the time. If you can get a base of +19 to a skill check with a min/maxed character and in skill checks rolling a 1 is not automatic failure then you are automatically sucessful at any task DC20 or below. If there is no degree of sucess then you should not even have to roll. This could happen many times. However, when the ambasador of Nyrond is killed and replaced by a Pit Fiend/Rog3 with a cloak of charisma and a +10 in diplomacy, and the PC has to make a diplomacy roll to see if the can convince the king of Nyrond not to go to war with the duchy of urnst, you are going to want that high ability. And, this is a further clue to the player that somthing is wrong because it was always easy to convince Nyrond to stay on peaceful terms. Now the player is rolling...

Aaron.

 

[Forrester]

Extraplanar attention does not mean they show up. Also, the D20 system is written in such a way that after 10th what you roll for a skill check hardly matters most of the time. If you can get a base of +19 to a skill check with a min/maxed character and in skill checks rolling a 1 is not automatic failure then you are automatically sucessful at any task DC20 or below. If there is no degree of sucess then you should not even have to roll. This could happen many times. However, when the ambasador of Nyrond is killed and replaced by a Pit Fiend/Rog3 with a cloak of charisma and a +10 in diplomacy, and the PC has to make a diplomacy roll to see if the can convince the king of Nyrond not to go to war with the duchy of urnst, you are going to want that high ability. And, this is a further clue to the player that somthing is wrong because it was always easy to convince Nyrond to stay on peaceful terms. Now the player is rolling...

Aaron.

So your point is that high-level skill checks generally don't matter, except when they do?

How profound.