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The title kinda says it all. KCC allows any failed recall knowledge check using one of two skills to be retried using the other skill.

For a bard with bardic knowledge they could chose bardic knowledge and occultism as their two skills. At level 4, when KCC can be taken, this allows player to recall knowledge on ANY subject (with -2 difficulty to DC) and on a fail then retry with occultism which could be expert by then. This suddenly gives a power level a normal bard has to wait until Lv15 when they can upgrade Bardic Lore to expert for the cost of a single skill feat.

This just seems ridiculously OP. What do people think?

I’m building a polymath bard and am interested in the flexibility that the spell book offers. However it seems, looking at DCs for learning spells, it will always be quite hard and will result in a lot of failures. What are peoples experience with this and how would you improve sizes rates? Pumping INT and Occultism skill is the obvious routes but is this enough on its own? If not what else can I do? Or should I not worry about it and just accept that failure will happen often?

Also thinking with focus on INT and Occultism adopting the enigma muse as well might bring sone good synergies. Any suggestions for this build path?

Does anyone have any experience building a bard with all three muses (through multifarious muse)? I know it might be a bit unfocused but they all bring such cool stuff to the table. Are the initial abilities strong enough to make up for losing out on higher level feats?

HI,
New player here so apologies if this is a really obvious question.

I am trying to get my head round building a bard for Age of Ashes campaign and cannot get my head round what performance is useful for. I see that a number of the focus spells for maestro muse require peformance checks and it synergises with versatile performance but beyond this (and earning income) I can't see how investing in this skill pays off. Espcially as I am considering building an enigma bard. I like the idea of performance being part of my character but atm a maestro/polymath build is the only one that makes sense to me. What am I missing??