Difference between revisions of "Academics"
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− | * Success: Your character makes progress in his search for information. | + | * '''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. | + | * '''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. | + | * '''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. | + | * '''Dramatic Failure:''' Your character obtains flawed or inaccurate information that leads him to draw incorrect conclusions about the subject.<br> |
Revision as of 02:24, 16 May 2019
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.
Results
- 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.