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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sigurd" data-source="post: 5060797" data-attributes="member: 19412">Fix - the Transcendent ChordThe Transcendent ChordBards of great skill level and performance ability reach a mystical place that teaches them deeper meanings, gives them great confidence and helps them master skills easily. These understandings happen with different performance types and grant instant skill bonuses. Bards may not share these teachings as they are a private interaction between themselves and living performance.These insights allow the bard to reassign their skill points in certain skills and even use the same rank total for companion skills. A bard's level in an enlightened skill is raised to their total level of that particular performance type.So the idea is that performance leads to a state of meditation that enlightens the Bard. If they have a better performance rank they reach a higher state of enlightenment. Using the modified skills is more akin to recalling that state of enlightenment. The notes of this chord are the skills that it affects.I don't think there is very much wrong with the mechanics of the ability and I think its much more fun than just getting a few more skill points. If you like use something like "chord triad". A bard may treat the total number of ranks in each of of the linked skills as his\her total for any one skill so long as she does not exceed her class level. So a 3rd level character with 2 sing, 1 bluff, and 1 sense motive could use a skill rank of 3 for any of those skills. At fourth level that would become 4 without any further investment. The bard would still have to trigger the progression and skill choice from versatile performance.James - If you use any of this I'd appreciate you changing my alias description on the Pathfinder boards (also Sigurd) to 'contributor' or 'not full of crap' or something. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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