Question: The claqué bard

[asuray_93]

Hey there. I have a question for you guys.
I'm going to play bard and i have doubts about chosing my perform skills, i wanna take something musical and another perform skill but I noticed it's a good idea to have a primary perform skill compatible with my performances AND hands-free so I can fight while performing.

Since all instruments (apart from singing, harmonica and if you count percussion as hitting your enemies with weapons) require hands, one of my options for example was wind (diplomacy and handle animal) and sing (bluff and sense motive) but then i thought, what if I took percussion?

Here is my question: can I do claqué as perform skill? and if so, is it a percussion skill or a dance skill?

Can I summon claqué shoes directly onto my feet with "summon instrument"?

[The Crusader]

You don't need to actually play an instrument, or use the perform skill, to use any of your abilities.

There's no reason to be concerned about which performance skill you choose, except to determine your bonuses for versatile performance.

[asuray_93]

The Crusader wrote:

You don't need to actually play an instrument, or use the perform skill, to use any of your abilities.

So I don't have to actually perform while I do a performance? One should think that if I'm blowing a flute to create a magic effect, I have to keep blowing to achieve the effect continuously

[The Crusader]

PRD wrote:

Starting a bardic performance is a standard action, but it can be maintained each round as a free action. Changing a bardic performance from one effect to another requires the bard to stop the previous performance and start a new one as a standard action. A bardic performance cannot be disrupted, but it ends immediately if the bard is killed, paralyzed, stunned, knocked unconscious, or otherwise prevented from taking a free action to maintain it each round. A bard cannot have more than one bardic performance in effect at one time.

At 7th level, a bard can start a bardic performance as a move action instead of a standard action. At 13th level, a bard can start a bardic performance as a swift action.

Each bardic performance has audible components, visual components, or both.

If a bardic performance has audible components, the targets must be able to hear the bard for the performance to have any effect, and many such performances are language dependent (as noted in the description). A deaf bard has a 20% chance to fail when attempting to use a bardic performance with an audible component. If he fails this check, the attempt still counts against his daily limit. Deaf creatures are immune to bardic performances with audible components.

If a bardic performance has a visual component, the targets must have line of sight to the bard for the performance to have any effect. A blind bard has a 50% chance to fail when attempting to use a bardic performance with a visual component. If he fails this check, the attempt still counts against his daily limit. Blind creatures are immune to bardic performances with visual components.

Standard Action to start, Free Action to maintain. That's pretty much it...

Feel free to fluff it out, or roleplay however you would like. But, you don't need to be playing an instrument or dancing or singing or anything...