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Okay so I'm looking at some magic items for a Bard I'm building and a...conundrum occurred to me.
With Versatile Performance, are you using the chosen Perform skill AS the VP skill (Perform = Diplomacy for example) or lets you just use the mod in place of the one for the chosen skill?
To better illustrate my problem, say I was to get a choice one a skill boosting magic item. My VP is Strings which nets me Diplomacy and Bluff. Would I be better off taking a boost to my Perform skill, or could I take a boost to my Diplomacy and have that bonus augment my VP roll (As in use VP to use Perform and add in the aforementioned Diplomacy bonus)? Likewise, if I for whatever reason take a hit to Diplomacy, would that factor into VP, or would only hits to the Performance skill?
I hope this question's clear enough >.>
This is somewhat controversial. Here is an answer from James Jacobs. Also see this related statement.
And here are some JJ houserules on the matter that alter the above.
Please note that while JJ as Creative Director is presumably knowledgeable, he is not repeat NOT an official rules source.
Personally I agree with JJ on all the above, but not everyone does.
Hope that helps.