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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6939397" data-attributes="member: 4937">I would rule that production of sound is required.I personally find that Perform categories are not a particularly well thought out concept.  While it may be realistic to say that someone who can perform on the Harp, can't necessarily dance or play a flute, if realism is to be the standard the categories also fail, since it is equally realistic to say that someone who is a Master on the violin, isn't necessarily a master of stand up comedy, dancing, or playing the flute, but at least has some skill in these things.  Given that the categories offer no sort of game utility, and add little or no realism, and that perform is already one of the most marginal skills in the game that DMs have to struggle to find occasions for the skill to matter and showcase it, I don't think that there is anything wrong with just simplifying completely and saying if you can perform, then you can perform anything.</blockquote>