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Perform Talents

Fascinating, impressing and fame.

TalentTierRequirementsBenefit
Fascinating Performance11+ ranks in PerformOne creature that can see or hear you (as suits your performance) makes a Charisma save opposed by your Perform check; on a failure it is Fascinated by you for 1 round.
Impressive Performance11+ ranks in PerformMake an Impression with Perform instead of Diplomacy.
Virtuosic Performer11+ ranks in PerformChoose a performance specialty: 1 Advantage on Perform checks of that type (2 at 5+ ranks).
Legendary Performer2Virtuosic Performer; 9+ ranks in PerformNPCs who succeed at a DC 10 Society check have heard of you, and their attitude usually starts one step better (or more fearful, depending on your reputation).
Force of Personality12+ ranks in Perform; Charisma 2+Use Charisma to determine your maximum Strain.

Fascinating Performance

Tier 1 · 2 AP
Skill, Maneuver, Mental, Perform

Requires: 1+ ranks in Perform

One creature that can see or hear you (as suits your performance) makes a Charisma save opposed by your Perform check; on a failure it is Fascinated by you for 1 round. If the target is in immediate danger (such as combat), it rolls the save twice and keeps the better, and this action gains Incapacitation. Sustain: spend 2 AP on your turn to extend the effect 1 more round (you can Push this too). When the effect ends or is broken, the target is immune to your Fascinate for 1 hour. You can fascinate additional targets equal to your Perform ranks.Sustain for 2 AP (pushable). The target is then immune for 1 hour. More ranks add more targets.

Push: take 1 Strain to use this for 1 AP instead of 2.

Impressive Performance

Tier 1
Skill, Mental, Perform

Requires: 1+ ranks in Perform

Make an Impression with Perform instead of Diplomacy.

Virtuosic Performer

Tier 1
Skill, Mental, Perform

Requires: 1+ ranks in Perform

Choose a performance specialty: 1 Advantage on Perform checks of that type (2 at 5+ ranks). Specialties (with examples): Acting (drama, pantomime, puppetry), Comedy (buffoonery, joke telling, limericks), Dance (ballet, huara, jig, macru), Keyboards (harpsichord, organ, piano), Oratory (epic, ode, poetry, storytelling), Percussion (chimes, drum, gong, xylophone), Singing (ballad, chant, melody, rhyming), Strings (fiddle, harp, lute, viol), Winds (bagpipe, flute, recorder, trumpet).

Legendary Performer

Tier 2
Skill

Requires: Virtuosic Performer; 9+ ranks in Perform

NPCs who succeed at a DC 10 Society check have heard of you, and their attitude usually starts one step better (or more fearful, depending on your reputation).

Force of Personality

Tier 1

Requires: 2+ ranks in Perform; Charisma 2+

Use Charisma to determine your maximum Strain.