Performance
A Performance check determines how well you can delight an audience with music, dancing, acting, or some other form of entertainment. It also determines how effectively you can act as another individual, or mask your incompetence in a specific skill or unbelonging in a location. The base ability used is normally Charisma.
Impersonate | Untrained
You pretend to be someone you are not by imitating mannerisms or quirks of a specific individual or an ambiguous member of a group in order to gain favor, access a location, or otherwise.
| Base DC | Examples |
|---|---|
| 10 | |
| 15 | |
| 20 | |
| 25 | |
| 30 |
Perform | Untrained
You use your Action to try to appeal to an individual or crowd, using your finesse and charisma to impress those who have gathered. Frequently, a Perform action will follow a check using the specific means of performing (such as song, dance, or instruments), and your skill in such a check may further improve your odds on the Charisma (Performance) check made to actually perform. The difference between the skill check to use your desired means of performance, and your ability to actually impress the crowd, is normally averaged—thus a high technical skill can help to balance out a low Performance check.
| Base DC | Examples |
|---|---|
| 10 | Audience of commoners |
| 15 | Audience of artisans |
| 20 | Audience of merchants or minor nobles |
| 25 | Audience of high nobility or minor royalty |
| 30 | Audience of major royalty of otherworldly beings |
