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Chapter 8: Skills
Overall, each race tends to produce certain
types of music. Bugbear music is fast, orderly, aggressive,
and calculated. Some of the fastest lutepickers
are bugbears.
Black dwarven music is moderate in tempo,
aggressive, calculated, and prides itself on its numerous
simultaneous melodies.
White dwarven music is generally happy and
uplifting, yet powerful. Their music is calculated.
Dark elven music is capricious and seductive.
Females are famous for playing phallic-shaped
flutes.
Light elven music is best described as happy.
All light elven music is suitable for dancing, and
highly repetitious.
Human music has an expressive range, but
is best described as sad or emotional. Humans play
all types of music, but prefer their racial scale.
Kobold music is capricious, repetitive, and
concerned with power. No other race relies on
power chords (root, 5 th , and omitted 3 rd ) as much as
kobolds.
Subterranean trolls dislike noise, so they
rarely play music. When they do, it is exceedingly
slow and concerned with complicated harmonies,
not counterpoint.
Check: Roll 3d10 and apply the modifier
for the sub-ability of Math. Higher results correspond
with music exuding good music theory.
Musical Instrument
In order to judge the performance of the
musician with their instrument, a check is made for
this skill.
LC: For every month that the instrument is
practiced regularly, and the practicing consists of
structured efforts, the LC decreases by 2.
Check: Roll 3d10 and apply the average of
the modifiers for the Hand-Eye Coordination and
Spatial Intelligence sub-abilities. The higher the
number, the better the performance. What may be
easy to perform on one instrument may be difficult
or impossible on another. For this reason, the Aedile
is the arbiter of each performance.
Many players, however, seek to be considered
virtuosos. Virtuosity, however, is more than a
skill check, it is the result of a multiplicative function.
Following are numeric factors to determine
virtuosity. The factors must be multiplied together.
In order to be a virtuoso, a character must have a
VS (Virtuosity Score) of 25,000,000.
VS = (numerical and decimal equivalent of
total years of playing the instrument) x (Hand-Eye
Coordination) x (Spatial Intelligence) x (Analytic
Intelligence)
For instance, someone who has played for
10 years, has a Hand-Eye Coordination of 145, Spatial
Intelligence of 130, and with an Analytic Intelligence
of 150 has a VS of 23,562,500 (10 x 145 x 130
x 125), and while they are close and obviously talented,
they are not a virtuoso with that instrument.
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