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Dancing

Artistic
Agility
Creativity

Short Description

The art of expressing ideas, emotions, and stories through movement, utilizing fluid motion, rhythm, and creative choreography.

Success Criteria

Effects

Modifiers and Restrictions

Action Examples

You perform an elegant courtly dance at a noble gathering.

  • DR 100+ (depending on your initial standing) impresses your host and secures your group an invitation to the inner chambers.
  • DR 120 or higher grants a bonus to Diplomacy, Acting, or similar social skills used in the next 10 minutess based on your success rate.

Long Description

Dancing isn’t just about performance—it’s a tool for expression, distraction, and infiltration. In tense situations, a skilled dancer can shift the mood, disarm suspicion, or even mask spellcasting or secret movement. It blends aesthetics with control, opening both social and strategic doors.

This skill is especially effective when paired with:

  • Martial Dance – to turn rhythm into defense or group synergy
  • Conjuring – to amplify the illusion with visual flair
  • Acting – to fully inhabit a role or persona during your dance
  • Disguise – to blend your performance into a foreign culture or role
  • Charm Magic – to boost spell believability or target openness

In Cosmic Odyssey, Dancing is more than art—it’s a subtle force that bends the emotional landscape around you. Use it to win hearts, shift tides, or veil intent beneath a graceful step.

Sequencing

Potential Counters

How to use this page

All the information above is intended as a guide to help you navigate the many situations that can arise during your game. Since it's both impossible—and frankly uninspiring—to plan for every possible outcome, players are encouraged to think creatively when using their skills. Game Masters, in turn, are encouraged to embrace and support that creativity.

Whenever possible, aim to resolve situations through narrative choices, logical thinking and role playing. If that’s not feasible, agree on a Difficulty Rating (DR) using the provided Success Criteria and Modifiers. These are not rigid rules, but suggestions - starting points to help you find the right level of challenge. The player describes their intended action, and the Game Master proposes a DR. This should be open to brief discussion at the table, ideally resulting in consensus. If not, the Game Master has the final say.

It’s important to emphasize that all suggested effects, modifiers, and action examples are exactly that: suggestions. If you’re unsure how to resolve something, they offer a reliable fallback—but wherever possible, we encourage you to push boundaries. That’s where some of the most memorable and exciting moments in play are born.

Sequencing and Potential Counters are far from exhaustive. With hundreds of skills, spells, and tech modules in the game, the possibilities are too vast to list. You’re encouraged to explore combinations that make sense in your story and setting and in the situations that arise in your game. Sequencing and countering are core to Cosmic Odyssey - they’re where strategic depth meets dramatic flair, and where legendary moments often take shape. Even if no sequencing and counters are mentioned, some certainly exists and can be smartly utilized.

So explore boldly, improvise wisely, and enjoy the game as it unfolds around your choices.