Knowledge

“Scientia Est Potentia. (Knowledge Is Power.)”

—Francis Bacon

Like the Craft and Profession skills, Knowledge actually encompasses a number of unrelated skills. Knowledge represents a study of some body of information, possibly an academic or even scientific discipline. Below are typical fields of study. You can classify new areas of knowledge.

General Areas

Specific Areas

Business corporations, management, marketing, strategy Politics campaigning, issues, corruption Law government, corporate, Internet Science biology, psychology, physics Net news, games History wars, migrations Local legends, personalities, laws, traditions Nature biology, geography, meteorology Architecture buildings, bridges, sewers Military tactics, weapons, leaders Ancient mysteries, civilizations, symbols, cryptic phrases

Questions

Answering a question within your field of study has a risk of 50% (for really easy questions), 75% (for basic questions), or 100% to 150% (for really tough questions). Intelligence Training

Knowledge Supporting Influence

You can bolster an idea’s influence with relevant knowledge. You make a Knowledge chance with the risk of your Idea test, because more forceful messages require more knowledge to back them up. On a success, you add an additional +10% to the Idea test (+20% with Risk+50% margin, +40% with Risk+100%).

For example, if you were risking an idea to argue for your opinion about religion, you could use Knowledge of Religion to support your argument. If your idea test result was 18 and you succeeded at a Knowledge of Religion test DC 18, you could raise the idea test to 22. With a knowledge result of 28 (DC+10), you could raise the idea test to 26.

Unretriable

Knowledge chances indicate what you know, and thinking about a topic a second time doesn’t let you know something you never learned in the first place.

Untrained

An untrained Knowledge test is simply an Intelligence test. Without actual training, Someone only knows common knowledge.