Musicianship
Barding · Skill guide
Play instruments and support your barding skills. Maximum skill: 120 with Power Scrolls; useful alongside Peacemaking, Discordance and Provocation.
Summary
- Use: Double-click a usable instrument, or select it when a barding skill asks.
- The same instrument can train the skill through your unlocked cap.
- Wait for its normal reuse delay; repeated clicks do not remove it.
Training
Set Musicianship to Up ↑ and leave room under your 720 total skill cap.
| Skill Range | Recommended Activity |
|---|---|
| 0–50 | Buy an optional lesson from a Bard for 300 gold; it raises this skill directly to 50.0. |
| 50–80 | Play the Academy practice instrument in Bard Hall. |
| 80–120 | Keep playing an ordinary instrument, or use eligible barding actions outside the Academy. |
Above 100, use matching Power Scrolls in order: 105, 110, 115, then 120. They unlock caps without granting skill points.
Right-click the teacher NPC, select the skill’s training entry, then give 300 gold. You need a skill cap of at least 50 and room for the entire lesson under your total cap.
Mechanics & Scaling
The ordinary instrument success chance is Musicianship divided by 100. At 100 it passes, but the separate Bard skill can still fail against a difficult target. Native range uses the skill being performed, not Musicianship: Peacemaking 80, for example, gives Peacemaking a 13-tile range. Codex distances are separate.
| Threshold / Stat | Effect / Scaling |
|---|---|
| Musicianship 50 | 50% instrument success chance |
| Musicianship 80 | 80% instrument success chance |
| Musicianship 100+ | Instrument check succeeds; target check still applies |
Additional rules & notes
- Playing successfully and succeeding at a separate barding effect are different checks.
Location & Instructors
- Trainer NPC: Bard NPC to 50.0.
- Academy: Play the practice lute and use Bard Hall targets to 80.0.