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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1698309" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>Frankly, I have a hard time believing you can represent poetry with just a skill... or any other talent in creating a piece of art.</p><p></p><p>You can put under Craft the mechanical skills of your hands and mind, such as being effective at mixing colours in a painting, or drawing perfect lines, but that wouldn't let you paint a truly piece of art. It would stil be just a piece of craft. You can learn the tricks of writing a drama/comedy screenplay and gather experience by writing many, but that wouldn't make you Shakespeare or Woody Allen.</p><p></p><p>You can put under Perform the personal ability to entertain a crowd, to enthrall the viewers/listeners, and you can improve that throughout your lives and actors almost always become better as they age, but that would still be an interpretation of something existing, at best it could be an improvisation, only that the improvising goes far beyond interpreting...</p><p></p><p>But you cannot become a better "artist" by just exercise. You can of course expand or improve your tecnique, but talent I am afraid not very much... also I can't think how - by the game's definitions - someone with more Int or Cha should be a better poet... she would be a more smart poet, or a more charismatic one.</p><p></p><p>Well this is my 2cp. If I really had to make it a skill I would choose Profession, but only because Profession itself is always treated as a quite unidetifiable thing after all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 1698309, member: 1465"] Frankly, I have a hard time believing you can represent poetry with just a skill... or any other talent in creating a piece of art. You can put under Craft the mechanical skills of your hands and mind, such as being effective at mixing colours in a painting, or drawing perfect lines, but that wouldn't let you paint a truly piece of art. It would stil be just a piece of craft. You can learn the tricks of writing a drama/comedy screenplay and gather experience by writing many, but that wouldn't make you Shakespeare or Woody Allen. You can put under Perform the personal ability to entertain a crowd, to enthrall the viewers/listeners, and you can improve that throughout your lives and actors almost always become better as they age, but that would still be an interpretation of something existing, at best it could be an improvisation, only that the improvising goes far beyond interpreting... But you cannot become a better "artist" by just exercise. You can of course expand or improve your tecnique, but talent I am afraid not very much... also I can't think how - by the game's definitions - someone with more Int or Cha should be a better poet... she would be a more smart poet, or a more charismatic one. Well this is my 2cp. If I really had to make it a skill I would choose Profession, but only because Profession itself is always treated as a quite unidetifiable thing after all. [/QUOTE]
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