Attributes, Abilities & Specialties

ARTISTRY

Description: Artistry reflects your ability with a visual or performing art: drawing, singing, acting, calligraphy, painting, dance, sculpture, and so forth. Given such talents, you can work within your chosen medium to produce works of startling power. Higher levels reflect your ability to impress your audience. As with other related general Abilities, each specialty reflects a different medium or field, of artistic endeavor. Each type of art – dance, painting, etc. – must be purchased as a separate specialty.

Allowed Specialties: Acting, Ballet, Calligraphy, CGI, Dancing, Painting, Sculpting, Singing, Specific Musical Instruments (Guitar, Drums, Piano, etc)

Rules: You gain a free, mandatory specialty upon taking your first dot in this Ability. You cannot benefit from this Ability, when attempting a non-specialized task. You simply roll the base attribute.

Story Example #1: “It’s not the message of the song – it’s how good you look singing it. Roll Appearance + Artistry (difficulty 6) to have your choice of groupies.”

Story Example #2: “You are engaged in a cooperative rote, using shamanic rituals to help achieve a higher state of awareness. One participant might roll Perception + Artistry to maintain a perfect heartbeat-like rhythm with traditional drums, and another might roll Charisma + Artistry or Stamina + Artistry to chant or dance themselves into an ecstatic trance.”