Wow, you say you only succeed beginning a song less than one third of the
time? Something definitely sounds amiss! And irritating, at that!

What are all your stats? I always thought charisma would have a bearing on
it, but you stated you increased that with dex and strength at character
creation. It is quite likely dexterity as no bearing on musical skills,
yours being so high. Do you have any exceptionally low stat???

(I have no idea the formula used to determine when a song can be
successfully started, but I do know that the singing skill or instrument
skill will effect the strength of a song, ie. Hymn of Restoration heals more
and more the higher one's string skill.)

Roop

-----Original Message-----
From: Reece, Tom CPT - 30th Signal Bn <ReeceT@...>
To: eqbards@onelist.com <eqbards@onelist.com>
Date: Monday, May 03, 1999 8:31 PM
Subject: [eqbards] Re: Twisting question

>From: "Reece, Tom CPT - 30th Signal Bn" <ReeceT@...>
>
>My success rate for twisting songs with a 95 DEX and 45 singing/instrument
>skill is probably less than 33%. I'll start keeping track and see if I can
>come up with an actual % rate instead of an estimate.
>
>When I get the message "You missed a note", I do keep pushing the song
>button but usually I just keep getting the same message. Only when the
>first song runs out do I get to start another one.
>
>Galtin
>