Lore
Typically used with: Insight.
In short: know the answer. Knowledge is power to those who know. Those with ranks in Lore are learned scholars, poring over books to glean even the smallest scrap of information. Characters with many ranks are unquestionable fountainheads of knowledge, and the people you always want on your team in trivia games.
Lore is used any time a character wants knowledge on a subject. Often heard around the game table is "do I know about that?" Lore is also used when a character wants to make something from raw materials (e.g. ammunition, medicines, weapons, meals, suits of armor, works of art). In order to make an object, you'll usually require a set of tools in addition to the materials.
Difficulty
When Lore is used for recalling knowledge, 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; the sum of the number of protons in the atoms of the noble gases) | 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 exact distance from a planet to the star it orbits at any given moment) | 40 |
Time
Lore checks to recall knowledge take no time at all; your character either instantaneously knows about a topic or not. Lore checks to create objects take a varied amount of time, depending on the complexity and size of the object.
Retry
Lore checks to create objects can be retried, but any materials used in the process of creating the failure are ruined. Lore checks to recall knowledge cannot be retried without the expenditure of a Fate point.
