exactly how does musicianship affect provoke?

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This is from UO's web site:

"For every point above 100 that a Bard attains in their Musicianship
skill, they will be granted a success bonus of 1% per point to
Discordance, Targeted Peacemaking, and Provocation attempts."

Essentially, there is no difference between zero or 100 in
musicianship for the purpose of provocation? Unless it's above 100, it
has no benefit??

 

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On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:39:05 GMT, namsilat <talismana@hotmail.com> wrote:

>This is from UO's web site:
>
>"For every point above 100 that a Bard attains in their Musicianship
>skill, they will be granted a success bonus of 1% per point to
>Discordance, Targeted Peacemaking, and Provocation attempts."
>
>Essentially, there is no difference between zero or 100 in
>musicianship for the purpose of provocation? Unless it's above 100, it
>has no benefit??

Is that new? Hmmm. I think Zan my old Bard gave up his music before we
were able to go past 100.

Whenever you do any barding there are 2 skill checks - the first to see if
you can play the music and the second for the particular musical effect.
So if you have a low musicianship skill you're going to fail outright at
provoking, etc. more than if you have a 100 skill.

I guess anything over 100 music skill is just a bonus tacked onto the
effect skill. That's cool - kind of like anatomy of 100 gives you a 20
bonus to combat skills.

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Michael Cecil
http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/

 

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"namsilat" <talismana@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> This is from UO's web site:
>
> "For every point above 100 that a Bard attains in their Musicianship
> skill, they will be granted a success bonus of 1% per point to
> Discordance, Targeted Peacemaking, and Provocation attempts."
>
> Essentially, there is no difference between zero or 100 in
> musicianship for the purpose of provocation? Unless it's above 100, it
> has no benefit??

I *think* that the musicianship skill is added to the other one to produce a
total which is applied against the difficulty rating of that particular
creature

Hmmm...does that make sense? Here is a useful chart, anyway!
http://uo.stratics.com/content/skills/bardingdifficulty.php

As you will see, having zero musicainship rules everything out...

Archeon