PERFORMANCE (CHA)

Perform

Concentrate

When making a brief Performance - one song, a quick dance, or a few jokes - you use the Perform action. This action is most useful when you want to prove your capability or impress someone quickly. Performing rarely has an impact on its own, but it might influence the DCs of subsequent Diplomacy checks against the observers - or even change their attitudes - if the GM sees fit.

Critical Success Your Performance impresses the observers, and they're likely to share stories of your ability.
Success You prove yourself, and observers appreciate the quality of your Performance.
Failure Your Performance falls flat.
Critical Failure You demonstrate only incompetence.

Sample Perform Tasks

Untrained audience of commoners
Trained audience of artisans
Expert audience of merchants or minor nobles
Master audience of high nobility or minor royalty
Legendary audience of major royalty or otherworldly beings

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Source Core Rulebook pg. 250

Earn Income

Downtime

You use one of your skills to make money during downtime. The GM assigns a task level representing the most lucrative job available. You can search for lower-level tasks, with the GM determining whether you find any. Sometimes you can attempt to find better work than the initial offerings, though this takes time and requires using the Diplomacy skill to Gather Information, doing some research, or socializing.

When you take on a job, the GM secretly sets the DC of your skill check. After your first day of work, you roll to determine your earnings. You gain an amount of income based on your result, the task’s level, and your proficiency rank (as listed on Table 4–2: Income Earned).

You can continue working at the task on subsequent days without needing to roll again. For each day you spend after the first, you earn the same amount as the first day, up until the task’s completion. The GM determines how long you can work at the task. Most tasks last a week or two, though some can take months or even years.

Task Level	DC	Failed	Trained	Expert	Master	Legendary
0	14	1 cp	5 cp	5 cp	5 cp	5 cp
1	15	2 cp	2 sp	2 sp	2 sp	2 sp
2	16	4 cp	3 sp	3 sp	3 sp	3 sp
3	18	8 cp	5 sp	5 sp	5 sp	5 sp
4	19	1 sp	7 sp	8 sp	8 sp	8 sp
5	20	2 sp	9 sp	1 gp	1 gp	1 gp
6	22	3 sp	1 gp, 5 sp	2 gp	2 gp	2 gp
7	23	4 sp	2 gp	2 gp, 5 sp	2 gp, 5 sp	2 gp, 5 sp
8	24	5 sp	2 gp, 5 sp	3 gp	3 gp	3 gp
9	26	6 sp	3 gp	4 gp	4 gp	4 gp
10	27	7 sp	4 gp	5 gp	6 gp	6 gp
11	28	8 sp	5 gp	6 gp	8 gp	8 gp
12	30	9 sp	6 gp	8 gp	10 gp	10 gp
13	31	1 gp	7 gp	10 gp	15 gp	15 gp
14	32	1 gp, 5 sp	8 gp	15 gp	20 gp	20 gp
15	34	2 gp	10 gp	20 gp	28 gp	28 gp
16	35	2 gp, 5 sp	13 gp	25 gp	36 gp	40 gp
17	36	3 gp	15 gp	30 gp	45 gp	55 gp
18	38	4 gp	20 gp	45 gp	70 gp	90 gp
19	39	6 gp	30 gp	60 gp	100 gp	130 gp
20	40	8 gp	40 gp	75 gp	150 gp	200 gp
20 (critical success)	—	—	50 gp	90 gp	175 gp	300 gp

Critical Success You do outstanding work. Gain the amount of currency listed for the task level + 1 and your proficiency rank.
Success You do competent work. Gain the amount of currency listed for the task level and your proficiency rank.
Failure You do shoddy work and get paid the bare minimum for your time. Gain the amount of currency listed in the failure column for the task level. The GM will likely reduce how long you can continue at the task.
Critical Failure You earn nothing for your work and are fired immediately. You can't continue at the task. Your reputation suffers, potentially making it difficult for you to find rewarding jobs in that community in the future.

Sample Earn Income Tasks

These examples use Alcohol Lore to work in a bar or Legal Lore to perform legal work.
Trained bartend, do legal research
Expert curate drink selection, present minor court cases
Master run a large brewery, present important court cases
Legendary run an international brewing franchise, present a case in Hell's courts

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Source Core Rulebook pg. 236