Musician

“Musician” is the ability to play a musical instrument.

I’m making it an optional skill available in several areas (Entertainer, University, Graduate University and Military Musician). At referee’s discretion, it should also be a background skill.

All musican skills cascade throughout a “family” of instruments - in other words, an oboe player (in the “Double Reed” family) can probably squawk out a tune on an bassoon, but will probably not be much of a guitar player.

The practical aspects of Music in a campaign setting are probably rare, with two exceptions:

Freelancing: A musician can roll Average:Musician to make money as a musician (add a level for instruments outside the specialty family)
Morale: Some instruments (bagpipes, bugles) can optionally provide a one-level drop in coolness under fire rating for a period of a few turns. Roll Difficult: Musician. This is, of course, at referee’s discretion.

Instrument Families

Musicians can play their specialty instrument in the family at the listed level - in other words, a musican can have a Musican (Bagpipe) 5 rating.

Musicians can play all instruments in their family at a 0 level. (Musicians can also take points in several instruments in the same family.)

Percussion	Drums and percussion instruments (from tympani to triangle), plus xylophones, marimba and chimes.
Keyboard	Pianos, Organs, etc.
Fretted String Instruments	Guitars, Electric Basses, Mandolins, Banjos, Dulcimers, Sitars, Sazzes, Balalaiki, Ouds and so on.
Bowed String Instruments	Violin, Viola, Cello, Upright Bass
Brass Instruments	Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, Bugle, and the variations on them.
Single-Reed Instruments	Saxophone, Clarinet.
Double-Reed Instruments	Oboe, Bassoon.
Bag Double-reed Instruments	Bagpipes (Highland, Uillean, Northumbrian and the many other varieties)
Woodwind Instruments	Flute, Pennywhistle, Recorder, Harmonica, etc.


	[Home Base] [News!!!] [Special Rules] [New Skills] [Character Guide] [Nations] [Articles] [Credits]

Check out my company site, which pays the bills for this little hobby. The copyright for Twilight/Merc2000 is owned by Tantalus Games Inc. However, the game is kept alive by hobbyists worldwide, whom I thank for giving this site a reason to exist.

Comments? Suggestions? Email Me!