| Shrubhog |
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This is a question I can't seem to find official clarification on.
If you change which type of Perform skill you're using in the middle of a bardic performance, does the performance end and need to be restarted, or can you retain it with the new type of Perform skill as a free action?
For example, say I have a bard performing on a stringed instrument, which he then smashes over the head of an enemy and in melee combat as an improvised weapon and breaks. Without a stringed weapon, can he maintain his bardic performance by using something like Sing or Act, without having to restart the performance as a standard action?
As a DM, I feel like changing the type of performance and the type of Perform skill used (even if active Perform checks aren't actually being made, in the case of skills like Fascinate and Inspire Courage) constitutes one performance ending and another beginning, even if the same bardic performance skill is being used (Fascination with Perform (String) into Fascination with Perform (Sing)).
I'd really like to get some official errata on this, if at all possible!
Thanks.