10-29-2012, 09:08 PM | #11 |
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Re: Modelling Tone Deafness & Absolute Pitch?
Incidentally, tone deafness and absolute pitch would probably be relevant to the mimicry skill, particularly if trying to deceive someone with absolute pitch.
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10-30-2012, 03:57 AM | #13 | |
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Should affect drums/percussion too. Not only many of those instruments tuned too, and produce different frequencies/notes/etc. (sometimes very non-obviously so), but a drummer has to have an idea what exactly is happening in the other sections of the band. ------------ Back to my personal opinion: I don't see much need for Incompetences to prohibit buying skills, even though this is RAW. The penalty is so harsh that it makes more sense to buy off the incompetence than to buy skills - if the player wants skills, there is definitely no munchkinry involved. |
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10-30-2012, 05:23 AM | #14 |
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Re: Modelling Tone Deafness & Absolute Pitch?
Don't forget that most of the people with absolute pitch have Susceptible (Dysharmonic sounds) at least on quirk level.
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10-30-2012, 04:27 PM | #17 |
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Re: Modelling Tone Deafness & Absolute Pitch?
I new someone who was "tone deaf" but was a perfectly good solo pianist...because the piano is tuned by someone else and she could read music and translate that music to the keys on the keyboard.
On the other hand, I knew someone who had "perfect" absolute pitch, which, like everyone I've known who has claimed to have it, was "tuned" to A440. So the minute she had to play in an early music ensemble (which tends to have A415 or thereabouts...and often aren't using equal temperament), she was completely incapable of playing at all (violinist). So I've seen people able to play fixed pitch instruments well as a tone deaf person and people with absolute pitch completely come apart the second anything other than modern western equal temperament tunings, also usually tonal rather than microtonal, come into play. |
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There's certainly a learned element to perfect pitch; given a different background, she'd be fine with tones from that background and couldn't handle a modern scale. |
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So, I'd be hesitant to equate "Tone Deaf" with a universal penalty to musical skills and "Perfect Pitch" with a universal bonus to musical skills. |
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