[skill] Ventriloquism, Mimickry, and Whistling


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Some suggestions...

Linguistics
Speedreading as a DC or limited scaled progression
Tongue Twisters ditto (don't recall the proper term)
Mimicry: a verbal form of forgery

  • a person
  • dialects, age, or gender
  • bird calls and whistles
  • animals and creatures in general
  • pig hollaring

Perform
Puppetry (hand puppets, string puppets, ventriloquy)
Mouth Instruments (mouth harp, jaw harp, harmonica, whistling)
Body Music (knee slapping, finger tapping, toe tapping, elaborate clapping, skull knocking,
cheek popping, tongue clicking, melodic burps, boot stomping, armpit pferting, etc)
Vocal Tricks (ventriloquy, whistling, impressionist)

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I toyed with a Ventriloquism/Mimicry skill for a while, then decided to fold it into Disguise, as that is the existing skill it'd most likely be used in conjunction with.

I'm also a fan of whistling as an 'instrument.' I've been imagining it as part of Perform (sing), calling it a 'melody.' Did you know there is a language "spoken" in the Canary Island made up entirely of whistles?

Love the idea of puppetry and body music.


Disguise was were I first went to look lol :)
but seems specifically related to visuals, further enforced by the DC examples,
hence what prompted me.

thought about dropping whistling into Singing too,
but completely different usage of the body,
becoming better at one has no impact on the other
few opera singers can hail a cab with a whistle for example :) lol
then again, it's just a game, maybe I'm being to fussy there

also think rangers should have bird & animal calls as a class skill somehow
same for scout builds of the Rogue

never knew whistling comprised an entire human language, thanx! :D

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