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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 1280695" data-attributes="member: 707"><p>Well, they certainly can. In a previous campaign I played in, I had a 12th-level rogue who was an actress and dancer. Some serious perform there. Sure, her Perform wasn't as high as a bard's might be, but then, a bard can't sneak attack. <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=":)" />Thing is, this makes perfect sense to me. Having watched many a live Taiko drum performance while I lived in Japan, I'd say it takes a LOT of charisma to be a good drummer. There's so much more to it than just banging on a big instrument. So if the barb puts in the skill points, he'll get better, but he should hardly have the same presence while playing it that a charismatic rogue or sorcerer would, who invested the same skill points.If you mean, "I don't see why performers need to be charismatic" then I guess we just don't see eye to eye. To me charisma is fundamental to performance of any kind. If you are talking of some other kind of limitation, then please elucidate. <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=":)" />Of course you'll do what you want in your campaign. <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=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Out of curiosity, what makes Perform different from any other skill (all of which are based on a single characteristic) that makes it nonsensical?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lord Pendragon, post: 1280695, member: 707"] Well, they certainly can. In a previous campaign I played in, I had a 12th-level rogue who was an actress and dancer. Some serious perform there. Sure, her Perform wasn't as high as a bard's might be, but then, a bard can't sneak attack. :)Thing is, this makes perfect sense to me. Having watched many a live Taiko drum performance while I lived in Japan, I'd say it takes a LOT of charisma to be a good drummer. There's so much more to it than just banging on a big instrument. So if the barb puts in the skill points, he'll get better, but he should hardly have the same presence while playing it that a charismatic rogue or sorcerer would, who invested the same skill points.If you mean, "I don't see why performers need to be charismatic" then I guess we just don't see eye to eye. To me charisma is fundamental to performance of any kind. If you are talking of some other kind of limitation, then please elucidate. :)Of course you'll do what you want in your campaign. :) Out of curiosity, what makes Perform different from any other skill (all of which are based on a single characteristic) that makes it nonsensical? [/QUOTE]
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