Perform Rules
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.
| Performance
| Additional Traits
| Examples
| {Acting}
| Auditory, linguistic, and visual
| Drama, pantomime, puppetry
| {Comedy}
| Auditory, linguistic, and visual
| Buffoonery, joke telling, limericks
| {Dance}
| Move and visual
| Ballet, huara, jig, macru
| {Play Keyboard}
| Auditory and manipulate
| Harpsichord, organ, piano
| {Oratory}
| Auditory and linguistic
| Epic, ode, poetry, storytelling
| {Play Percussion}
| Auditory and manipulate
| Chimes, drum, gong, xylophone
| {Singing}
| Auditory and linguistic
| Ballad, chant, melody, rhyming
| {Play Strings}
| Auditory and manipulate
| Fiddle, harp, lute, viol
| {Play Winds}
| Auditory and manipulate
| Bagpipe, flute, recorder, trumpet
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
Source, license, and attribution
Source: Pathfinder Player Core (remaster-core-2026-08-10)
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