Trickery
If you want to earn some silver coins juggling in a tavern, use the skill Gaukelei. You can also perform shell games and minor magic tricks using this skill. Gaukelei is especially useful for hiding small items about your person.Check: COU/CHA/DEX
Applications: Clowning, Hiding Tricks, Juggling
Encumbrance: yes
Tools: depends on the trick (balls, torches, snakes, cards, and so on)
Quality: perform the trick especially well and garner more applause from the audience.
Failed Check: the trick doesn’t really work due to small mistakes, and the audience is disappointed.
Critical Success: the audience is fascinated and thinks you’ve worked true magic. If there’s money to be earned, you earn double the normal amount.
Botch: the audience boos the hero for a mishap during the performance (perhaps the hero hits an audience member with a juggling club, or injures the mayor with pyrotechnics, or some such).
Improvement Cost: A
- Simple card tricks +5
- Make a child laugh using clowning +3
- A close-up card trick +1
- Earn (skill points) halers in a tavern with your tricks +/-0
- Juggle three burning torches -1
- Juggle five balls -3
- Make a grumpy audience laugh -5