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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 536772" data-attributes="member: 2525">You left out the context of the sentence you quoted. It says "The number of perform categories is kept purposely finite.  When trying to determine what Perform skill a particular type of performance falls under, use broad interpretations of existing categories. Do not arbitrarily make up new categories."Now here are the details of the "new" skill he suggested:  "When your at a club and your DJing, there is some requirement on the DJ's half to get the crowd going..."In my opinion this element fits into the broad interpretation of the Acting skill."...all good international DJs like Paul Oakenfold, Pete Tong, or Seb Fontaine not only know what kind of music the crowd will really get into"Knowing what kind of music a crowd will get in to is a sense motive, gather information, or Knowledge: Popular culture check, and not a perform check.  "...but knows how the crowd is feeling and how to react..."Again, this is almost certainly a sense motive check, and not a perform check.  Your charisma modifier has nothing to do with sensing how a crowd is feeling."...and drop breaks, or build up the tempo or know when to switch records to suprise the hell out of the crowd."This is more like the traditional perform checks, and should be sufficient for Act or Keyboards."Every GOOD or proffessional club DJ has his own style and requires a commanding performance, from anywhere to raising his hands in the air to get the crowd motivated, to dropping new beats and even creating new ones."Again, this sounds very similar to Act.A broad intepretation of the existing Acting perform skill will get you a DJ. Therefore there is no need to make up a new skill.  Otherwise, you are needlessly adding a new skill to a specifically finite list.  Don't do it. Down that road leads a billion skills and no good method of figuring out which is appropriate for any given situation.</blockquote>

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