Perform

Obsidian has not confirmed the existence or non-existence of this skill in NWN2.

You are skilled in a type of artistic expression, which may encompas a variety of specific methods, and you know how to put on a show.

Like craft, knowledge, and profession, perform is actually a number of separate skills. For instance, you could have the skill perform (act). Your ranks in that skill don't affect any checks you happen to make for perform (oratory) or perform (string instruments). You could have several perform skills, each with its own ranks, each purchased as a separate skill.

Each of the nine categories of the perform skill includes a variety of methods, instruments, or techniques, a small list of which is provided for each category below.
 * Act (comedy, drama, mime)
 * Comedy (buffoonery, limericks, joke-telling)
 * Dance (ballet, waltz, jig)
 * Keyboard instruments (harpischord, piano, pipe organ)
 * Oratory (epic, ode, storytelling)
 * Percussion instruments (bells, chimes, drums, gong)
 * String instruments (fiddle, harp, lute, mandolin)
 * Wind instruments (flute, pan pipes, recorder, shawm, trumpet)
 * Sing (ballad, chant, melody)

NWN comparison
A Bard in NWN used the perform skill to determine the power of their Bard Song.

External resources

 * NWNWiki:Perform