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<blockquote data-quote="DandD" data-source="post: 4203639" data-attributes="member: 55168">Well, depends how you intend to use the &quot;acrobatic skills&quot;, if you understand what I mean. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Though if you only mean doing some funny things like balancing on a ball, or doing backflips for entertainment, it surely is entertaining, but what does it help the duke directly? The goal is to convince the NPC that there is something to gain for him, after all. Unless the NPC asks or demands an acrobatic act from the PCs, I wouldn't see the benefit for the acrobatic skill either. It's rather, why should I send 100 of my best men to aid these adventurers to the Doomdark Castle-ruins (which is infested with Gnoll Marauders, by the way)? What's in for me? That would be an example, I guess. That's why insight, following history checks, bluff and diplomacy might and should be applied, but a circus performance won't do it. And normally, guests don't perform and beg simultaneously. A rich and influencial host would have his own entertainer to provide amusement for the evening, while the PCs ask/beg for assistance. It would be too shameful for the host, otherwise, if the PC-guests had to do things themselves.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DandD, post: 4203639, member: 55168"] Well, depends how you intend to use the "acrobatic skills", if you understand what I mean. :D Though if you only mean doing some funny things like balancing on a ball, or doing backflips for entertainment, it surely is entertaining, but what does it help the duke directly? The goal is to convince the NPC that there is something to gain for him, after all. Unless the NPC asks or demands an acrobatic act from the PCs, I wouldn't see the benefit for the acrobatic skill either. It's rather, why should I send 100 of my best men to aid these adventurers to the Doomdark Castle-ruins (which is infested with Gnoll Marauders, by the way)? What's in for me? That would be an example, I guess. That's why insight, following history checks, bluff and diplomacy might and should be applied, but a circus performance won't do it. And normally, guests don't perform and beg simultaneously. A rich and influencial host would have his own entertainer to provide amusement for the evening, while the PCs ask/beg for assistance. It would be too shameful for the host, otherwise, if the PC-guests had to do things themselves. [/QUOTE]

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