Alrighty, we have Kidaen and he obviously has proteges, so can he spread his gift?

Perhaps a minor/half skillset that allows the character to play an instrument (ie: lute, harp, pan pipes) and have a few abilities based upon singing or possibily dancing. The abilities should be augmentation or support based, like raising/lowering the ego, will, endurance, with a few sense based afflictions/aides tossed in. Also make it a Charisma related skill and maybe have a few influence related powers as well.

Just a few random thoughts.

Raising the endurance... I like!

Something that makes influencing more versatile and workable would be good in any case. I'm annoyed that people always want to make things musicy (plus I want to see sonic halberd things and this reduces the chance of that! ) but at least it's well covered etc. Plus there's always people that want to play bards for some weird, weird reason.

he has proteges?


*CRY*

He means those minstrel dudes! You know, that announce FFAs.

Because bards kick ass..

I've always wanted a common music skill too, Cron.

What about if Influence was just scattered with a few performance based abilities?

If they make a bards guild I will cry. I want so badly to just be a bard without having the guild.

Probably the next archetype is going to be a Performace archetype, so just be patient.

if the next Archeotype is performance I suppose I will kiss druidry goodbye. Would rather it not be an archeotype though..

I hope the admins aren't putting another archetype together at this stage, we really don't need it yet.

Maybe we should just have a couple of skills added to Arts. The skillset wouldn't hurt for a bit of improvement, and really, almost half of it is Crafts now anyway.

Sonic Halberds? What is this Gundumb?

I don't really care if it's added into arts. I would prefer not to have a whole new archetype though. To be able to play instruemnts and sing songs and have then have an in game effect would be nice.

I have no idea what gundumb is, but don't worry, you can ignore it.

Why would I worry?

I thought that might be an implication of your using a word I've never heard of. :|

I make no implications. I simply would like to see, for personal RP and what not, a skill set that includes music. I don't see how that would have an effect on your desire to see sonic lances, what ever they are. No worry or any other such thing involved.

I think Arts should cover more than just Crafts. I can think of maybe two skill I've used outside of making stuff, and those are Destroy and Critique (which I've used four times: once to cure phantoms when I was panicking, twice to get rid of magic mouths in my shop (A magic mouth appears and says, "Lol u suck restock ur shop."), and once to get rid of one of those illusion tree things). I'd really, really love to see performance-related skills in Arts.

Orrrr, maybe Bardistry could be a tradeskill. Comm usage would be minimal (only one thing would be crafted, and those are instruments) and what they'd produce would be entirely temporary beneficial effects. Boosting rat population (a la Rondo from the Achaean bards), ego boosting, some stat modifiers (playing these would use power), a few defenses... like a tradeskill that focuses on services instead of creation.

The PERFORMING ARTS pool .

Bricriu wants a flute that has the double-use of playing music on, and for beating Ixion, Daevos and Murphy with.