Post:Skills 3.0 - Performance - 5/20/2011 - 11:10:49

Re: Skills 3.0 - Performance · on 5/20/2011 11:10:49 AM	4996
It is my understanding (Speaking as someone not directly involved in the core of the magic 3.0 rewrite, but as someone for whom this is certainly an issue) that the Performance skill will play no role whatsoever with Bardic magic going forward. This is to bring them in line with every other caster guild. Magic is magic, Lore is Lore. But, wait, you ask. What is the purpose of Performance if it is no longer entwined with Bardic magic or a source of easy TDPs? Surely it is to power Bardic Mojo type abilities? No? That's Bardic Lore (The Bard guild only skill)? Forsooth! Whatever shall this skill do? And that, my friends, is a very good question. The Performance Skill is not a specifically Bardic skill. It has to be useful to everyone, since it is not a guild only skill (And making Performance the guild only skill for Bards was never a serious option, for what I assume are obvious reasons). Can it have special functions for Bard systems? Sure -- much the same way many skills have special functions in guild systems. Could it have special functions for other guilds that Bards cannot be a part of? Conceivably. Part of the re-theming of the skill (Rather than just re-branding it Musical Lore again) to Performance is to make it a skill that can be meaningfully developed. Does that mean this development has been done? Not yet. Oh the upside another GM and I have a fairly interesting idea for this skill that I believe many of you will like, an idea that has been approved at that. However I'm not yet ready to discuss it beyond that it exists (And that only in the context of "The Performance Skill is not being forgotten"). Once I've chewed through a few more projects that outrank it on the priority scale and I've had a chance to put a little more flesh on its skeleton we'll discuss it.
This message was originally posted in Lore (5) \ General Discussions - Lore (3), by DR-RAESH on the play.net forums.