Academics

Academics is a broad-based Skill that represents a characters degree of education and general knowledge in the trivium of grammar, the quadrivium of arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy. Dots in this Skill do not correlate to a given level of education. Formal academic instruction is very rare in this setting. However, individual teaching and tutoring in a non-academic context can give you just as much knowledge as the rare academia.

• Possessed by : Barons, Baroness, Monks, Priests, Scribes, Students, Tutors...
  
• Specialties: Art, English, History, Instruction, Law, Quoting Text, Religion, Research...
  

Research

Researching information is far more difficult than during the days of large public libraries an computer databases. Roll Intelligence + Academics vs Assigned Difficulty. The number of successes required depends on the complexity and/or obscurity of the desired information. A simple set of facts might demand three successes to obtain, while a little known or difficult-to-find reference might demand 10 or more successes to uncover. Depending on the quality of the resources available, the Storyteller may grant a +1 or higher modifier to task rolls.

• Success: Your character makes progress in his search for information.
• Exceptional Success: Your character is well on his way to discovering the elusive information in her search providing greater detail and insight into the subject.
• Failure: Your character makes no progress in locating the information he's after.
• Dramatic Failure: Your character obtains flawed or inaccurate information that leads him to draw incorrect conclusions about the subject.