Perform (Music) (Skill)

Trained Only

Check: You are accomplished in creating tones from objects and know how to put on a performance. You can impress audiences with your talent and skill. The quality of your performance depends on your check result.

Keyboards: You are a musician gifted with a talent or playing keyboard musical instruments, such as piano, organ, and synthesizer.

Stringed Instruments: You are a musician gifted with a talent for playing stringed musical instruments, such IS banjo, guitar, harp, lute, sitar, and violin.

Wind Instruments: You are a musician gifted with a talent for playing wind musical instruments, such as flute, bugle, trumpet, tuba, bagpipes, and trombone.

Percussion Instruments: You are a musician gifted with a talent for playing percussion musical instruments, such as drums, cymbals, triangle, xylophone, and tambourine.

Try Again?: Not for the same performance and audience.

Special: You can take 10 when making a Perform check, but you can't take 20.

A character without an appropriate instrument automatically fails any Perform (Music) check he attempts. At the GM's discretion, impromptu instruments may be employed (such as an upside-down garbage can in place of a drum), but the performer must take a -4 penalty on the check because his equipment, although usable, is inappropriate for the skill.

Every time a character takes the Creative feat, he gets a +2 bonus on checks involving two Perform skills he designates.

Time: A Perform check usually requires at least several minutes to an hour or more.