05-06-2016, 06:08 AM | #11 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Musical Composition and Musical Instrument
Haydn's cello concertos (cello plus orchestra, but with the cello very much in the foreground) should be reasonable evidence that one doesn't need Musical Instrument skill to compose for that instrument – and yet he'd probably have been lost if someone had asked him to write a piece for the shakuhachi. It's possible to know very well what sounds an instrument can produce, without being able to play it at all, but I wouldn't represent that with skills; familiarities, perhaps.
I have successfully arranged pieces intended for a single singer into something for a four-part harmony group (with and without conductor), and I don't think I necessarily have skill=IQ in Singing – and I certainly don't in Conducting. (At TL8 with score-arranging software this becomes even more wrong-headed, because you can throw a part onto a stave, test it with synthesisers, and let the software warn you that a real-life bassoon can't do that.)
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05-06-2016, 06:28 AM | #12 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Musical Composition and Musical Instrument
Also one of my preferred examples of a worked adventurer in fiction is Link from the Legend of Zelda series who, in addition to being omni-proficient with implements of death, is also omni-proficient with musical instruments (and, when transformed into a wolf, singing as well).
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05-06-2016, 09:25 AM | #13 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Musical Composition and Musical Instrument
Just to add on to what others have said, no you are not the only one. The majority of my characters tend to have some skill in musical instrument. Mostly as a hobby, but sometimes as a means to make money.
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05-06-2016, 07:44 PM | #14 | |
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05-06-2016, 09:17 PM | #15 | |
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In my current game one character took musical skills to represent his carefree comfortable lifestyle before adventuring where he would stroll around the gardens, play his lute and watch the sunset. So he has both Lute, singing, connoisseur and poetry. Of course he is the face character so he has Voice advantage as well. |
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05-06-2016, 09:28 PM | #16 | |
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Violin might be better then piano though as it is more portable. Another thought is to pick an instrument that doesn't have quite such urbane associations. Call a violin a "fiddle" for instance. Or use a lyre or a bagpipe.
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05-06-2016, 11:23 PM | #17 | |
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05-06-2016, 11:27 PM | #18 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Musical Composition and Musical Instrument
The only musician in the single GURPS campaign I played in was the IQ 8 "ninja" martial artist. He had a single point in Musical Instrument(Guitar) and people at the inn were constantly booing him or begging him to stop playing.
Sometimes there's comedy potential in incompetence, which our two IQ 8 warrior-types had in spades, the ninja far more than the dwarf (player with Impulsive taking Trained by a Master, Weapon Master, Common Sense, Impulsive, and IQ 8 all on the same character in a 100 point game...).
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05-08-2016, 02:24 PM | #19 |
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05-08-2016, 03:21 PM | #20 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Musical Composition and Musical Instrument
In a Lovecraftian Mythos campaign, Musical Instrument (Viol) and Musical Instrument (Pipes) should be usable for occult purposes like keeping otherworldly creatures at bay or keeping them docile. Using inspiration from the world of Charlie Stross would also allow Musical Instrument (Violin) to be used as a dangerous weapon.
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