Skald questions

[Sjerkaner Ondereneuvel]

I am currently designing a Skald (PFS) and have looked in this forum and the Skald Guide in the Guides section but there are some questions that remain:

Versatile Performance: It looks to me you can only choose the Perform skills mentioned with the class. Yet the Talented trait is purple in the Guide as if you could now also choose the others (because it have become class skills?). In an example build I also saw a non-listed Perform chosen, all be it without the class skill bonus. Did I misread?

Rage powers, full base attack:
Many rage Powers (like Lesser Beast Totem) say the attack is at my full base attack bonus. Is that truly just my BAB or do I include my strength and other boni too? And do all my allies use this value, and do not apply any of their boni? Or does everyone adjust after using my BAB? Or they just use their own attack values? Very confusing.

(A bit off-topic) Totemic Skald:
How do I determine the abilities of for example the bull or the tiger? I do not see a small/medium variant of them.

Also I see War_Leader's Rage mentioned several times but I cannot find it on D20PFSRD. Where is it from?

[Deadmanwalking]

Versatile Performance: I think you read correctly and the guid is wrong. at the very least it's a GM call. Honestly, the Skald options are good, I'd stick with those.

Rage Powers: They mean your normal bonus including BAB, Str, and everything. Your allies also use their own normal bonus including their BAB, Str, and everything.

And it's not all that confusing, that's the game's standard usage of that phrasing.

Totemic Skald: I'm pretty sure you just scale them down. The number of attacks and the like stay the same and the damage dice go down one step. Regardless of what animal, you get the same stat-mods since you're duplicating wild shape.

[Kalvit]

As the guy who began the Skald guide, I have to point out that I wrote it in a more tongue-in-cheek fashion. Talented also gave a +1 on one Perform skill of your choice. That translates to a +1 on every skill that your Versatile Performance uses that Perform skill to replace. Sometimes, you might have spread your skill ranks thin between Knowledge skills, Perform skills, and Perception. Talented lets you have at least one skill you can flub a little there, and the added Perform skills were nice to have for flavor purposes. I still think it's one of the best traits a Skald can take, as it adds a little more mechanically while giving you flavor options.

Deadmanwalking hit the rest of the information you were looking for on that. Though I will point out that this thread reminds me I have to work on the guide a bit more. Might have to analyze the Augur and see where it stands, other than having a cool name. Last year wasn't a really good year for me, and this one hasn't been starting too well either. Mood affects writing quite a bit.

[Grandlounge]

Kalvit wrote:

As the guy who began...

Their is a better trait for this now. Savant +2 to all preform checks.

Historian is also great I can't member if it's in the guide or not. You get +1 to all bardic knowledge checks. That is 2 traits 16 skill points.

[Apraham Lincoln]

Grandlounge wrote:

Kalvit wrote:

As the guy who began...

Their is a better trait for this now. Savant +2 to all preform checks.

Historian is also great I can't member if it's in the guide or not. You get +1 to all bardic knowledge checks. That is 2 traits 16 skill points.

Savant is a bonus to 1 performance type. Still good and versatile but not as good as suggested

[Grandlounge]

Apraham Lincoln wrote:

Grandlounge wrote:

Kalvit wrote:

As the guy who began...

Their is a better trait for this now. Savant +2 to all preform checks.

Historian is also great I can't member if it's in the guide or not. You get +1 to all bardic knowledge checks. That is 2 traits 16 skill points.

Savant is a bonus to 1 performance type. Still good and versatile but not as good as suggested

Good call. Thanks

[Rub-Eta]

Grandlounge wrote:

Historian is also great I can't member if it's in the guide or not. You get +1 to all bardic knowledge checks.

Watch out when you pick Historian. It's not really Pathfinder material. It's from the Legacy of Fire player's guide, which I belive was writen for 3.5, hence the frasing "bardic knowledge checks" which was a thing in 3.5, not the same ability as in Pathfinder.