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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 6347144" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p>I think that there's a misunderstanding going on, as that wasn't what I wrote about (or at least, it wasn't what I was trying to say).</p><p></p><p>My reading of Versatile Performance is that it lets you substitute a given Perform (X) skill for another two skills altogether. So if you'd taken Versatile Performance in Perform (comedy), you'd essentially make a Perform (comedy) check when everyone else would have to make a Bluff or an Intimidate check; you'd roll your ranks in Perform (comedy) + class skill bonus + Charisma modifier + miscellaneous modifiers. Your total skill bonus is eveything that applies to the skill. Versatile Performance essentially means you don't have to use the associated skills (per se) ever again, because now you have a Perform skill doing what the replaced skills do.</p><p></p><p>The problem with this is that of the nine subsets of the Perform skill, the two skills they each replace have significant overlap between them. So much so that if you don't choose very carefully what Perform skills you take with Versatile Performance, you'll quickly end up replacing skills that have already been replaced.</p><p></p><p>Does that make sense?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 6347144, member: 8461"] I think that there's a misunderstanding going on, as that wasn't what I wrote about (or at least, it wasn't what I was trying to say). My reading of Versatile Performance is that it lets you substitute a given Perform (X) skill for another two skills altogether. So if you'd taken Versatile Performance in Perform (comedy), you'd essentially make a Perform (comedy) check when everyone else would have to make a Bluff or an Intimidate check; you'd roll your ranks in Perform (comedy) + class skill bonus + Charisma modifier + miscellaneous modifiers. Your total skill bonus is eveything that applies to the skill. Versatile Performance essentially means you don't have to use the associated skills (per se) ever again, because now you have a Perform skill doing what the replaced skills do. The problem with this is that of the nine subsets of the Perform skill, the two skills they each replace have significant overlap between them. So much so that if you don't choose very carefully what Perform skills you take with Versatile Performance, you'll quickly end up replacing skills that have already been replaced. Does that make sense? [/QUOTE]
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