Bard's start play knowing a number of styles of Performance equal to their Intelligence modifier + 1 (Minimum of 1). They may learn additional styles of Perform as normal: by spending an equal number of skill points for each additional style.
Ex.: Cylius the bard has a 12 Intelligence. At level 1, he has a Perform skill of 4, and chooses Comedy and Oratory as his two Perform styles (Int Mod + 1 Styles). At level 2, he can raise his Perform to 5. Thus when performing Comedy or Oratory, he has a skill of 5. If he wanted to learn another style at the same skill level, such as Stringed Instruments, he'd have to spend 5 skill points.
- Styles or Techniques
- Act (comedy, drama, mime)
- Comedy (buffoonery, limericks, joke-telling)
- Dance (ballet, waltz, jig)
- Keyboard instruments (harpsichord, piano, pipe organ)
- Oratory (epic, ode, storytelling)
- Percussion instruments (bells, chimes, drums, gong)
- String instruments (fiddle, harp, lute, mandolin)
- Wind instruments (flute, pan pipes, recorder, shawm, trumpet)
- Singing (ballad, chant, melody)
