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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reichtfeld" data-source="post: 781732" data-attributes="member: 10264">Dragon 301 and other sources have confused my understanding of the mechanics surrounding the Perform skill something awful.  The PHB states that every rank put into Perform adds another method of performance the character knows.  That means that it isn't like Knowledge, Profession, or Craft where you select a specific subtype and invest ranks into it.  Instead, Perform is cumulative and you use your single rank for any checks with a performance method you know; checks for methods you don't know would be made untrained as I understand it.  The most current errata for the PHB does not change how the Perform skill works.Yet Dragon 301's "Meter and Measure" article and certain PrC requirements treat Perform like Craft, Knowledge, and Profession.  They suggest/require that you invest skill ranks into individual Perform methods.  In the case of Dragon 301 you have to invest ranks into masterpiece performances, which are individual songs, dances, etc. that confer certain bonuses.So what exactly is going on with the Perform skill?  Are players supposed to invest ranks into individual performance methods?  Are the PrCs that list things like Perform (dance) 4 as a requirement just referring to 4 ranks in the Perform skill and having dance as one of your 4 methods, or Perform (dance) as its own exclusive skill like Knowledge (arcana) or Knowledge (religion)?  Are the skill ranks invested into learning masterpiece performances a sole exception to the PHB?  Please help me make sense of this.  <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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