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Revision as of 02:31, 13 June 2007
Knowledge is power to those who know. Those with ranks in a knowledge or lore are learned in the topic. Those with the skill maxed out are an unquestionable authority on the topic. The difference between the two is this: knowledges are the studies of something, where there are tangible measurements or facts involved; lores are experienced or passed-down information or how-tos. Here are a few examples:
Contents
Knowledges
- Animals
- Architecture
- Astronomy
- Chemistry
- Cryptography
- Geography
- History
- Magic
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Meteorology
- Military Tactics
- Physics
- Psychology
- Plants & Fungi
- Politics
- Royalty
- Spirit Power
- Weapons & Armor
Lores
- Cultures
- Faiths
- Gambling
- Locales
- Monsters
- Mythology
- Trapmaking
- Undead
- Wilderness
Difficulty
Knowledge or Lore attempts have no set difficulty. The higher the DL, the more obscure or ancient the information is.
| Example | DL |
|---|---|
| Something trite (fish don’t have hair; deserts are dry) | 5 |
| Normal information (a king’s length of reign; the stories of a common place of mystery) | 10 |
| Somewhat uncommon information (vampires cannot see their reflections; the traditions on a major holiday in a distant country) | 15 |
| Fairly uncommon information (the family tree of a noble; the cure for a rare disease, the vulnerabilities of a giant slime) | 20 |
| Extremely specific or forgotten information (the names of all blood vessels in a reptile, the secret password to open a long abandoned fortress) | 30 |
| “How do you know that?” (the names of all past owners of a particular non-magical walking stick; an ancient queen’s tea preferences; the sum of the number of protons in the atoms of the noble gases) | 40 |
Retry
Knowledge/Lore attempts cannot be retried without spending a fate point.
