Lore

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:

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.