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Defaults: Special
Musical Instrument (IQ/Hard) is the skill to play a musical instrument.[1] Defaults between specialties range from -3 for similar instruments to “no default” for utterly unrelated ones. In Fourth Edition, this skill also includes the ability to read music in your culture’s notation system (the Classic skill Musical Notation).
This skill is a popular background skill for characters who are musically-inclined, and is fundamental to mages with the Musical Instrument limitation!
Related Skills[]
Skill Defaults[]
- Connoisseur (Music) at -3.
- Group Performance (Conducting) at -2
- Musical Composition at -2
Prerequisites[]
- Possible requirement for Group Performance (see page)
Skill Categories[]
- This skill is found in the Musical Ability talent
Comment[]
Why Pipe Organs Sound Scary outlines the complexity of playing a pipe organ and one could argue that it could qualify as a Very Hard skill depending on the pipe organ.
- Alternate idea: Playing a pipe organ uses the piano familiarity, but has additional Pipe Organ sub-specialties for pulling stops and pressing pedals.