How would you identify a bardic masterpiece?


Rules Questions


Here's the setup. You're an 11th-level bard with max ranks in Perform (dance), and you know the pallavi of Nirvana's blossoming.

Blood of Angels wrote:

pallavi of Nirvana's blossoming: [...] The divine sunlight acts as true daylight and affects creatures damaged or destroyed by such light. The light is as bright as sunlight at full noon and counters or dispels any darkness spells of 4th level or lower. If the dance is performed in an area of more powerful magical darkness, both the divine sunlight and darkness are temporarily negated so that otherwise prevailing light conditions exist in the overlapping areas of effect. [...]

Action: 3 full rounds.

Clearly that horde of vampires you're fighting would be very put out if you actually managed to dance that long un-suctioned. One would hope that you're under the effects of invisibility or similar, but if not, how would someone identify the bardic masterpiece before it goes off? It's equivalent to a 4th-level spell, so, uh, maybe a DC 19 Knowledge (local) check?


Well, you could let them make a Perform(whatever bard is using) check, as per the bit in Pathfinder Unchained. Some kind of Knowledge check should work too, though I'd put it under arcana rather than local.

Liberty's Edge

It would be a DC 21 Knowledge (Arcana) check. Knowledge (Arcana) because Bard is an arcane spellcasting class, DC 21 because the masterpiece can be learned at a minimum of 11th level.

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