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- | ======Obscure Knowledge (Feat)====== | ||
- | You know and remember unusual bits of knowledge on a wide variety of topics. Your command of trivia sometimes comes in handy when other sources of information fail. | ||
- | **Prerequisite:** [[gather_information_skill|Gather Information]] 6 ranks. | ||
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- | **Benefit:** You can make a special Obscure Knowledge check with a bonus equal to your character level + your Intelligence modifier to determine whether or not you know relevant information about people, items, or places. This check won't reveal the identity of a killer, but it might give you a hint to his identity. | ||
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- | You can‘t take 10 or take 20 on this check. and the check can be made only once per subject. | ||
- | The GM determines the DC of the Obscure Knowledge check | ||
- | using this table. | ||
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- | * **DC** **Type of Knowledge (Examples)** | ||
- | * **15** Common: known by at least a substantial minority of the locals. (//The mayors reputation for drinking; folklore about a local haunted house.//) | ||
- | * **25** Uncommon but available; known to only a few locals. (//A local priest‘s shady past; rumors about a powerful corporation.//) | ||
- | * **35** Obscure: known to only a few people anywhere. //(An industrialists family history; rumors about an ordinary organization.//) | ||
- | * **50** Extremely obscure; known to very few or forgotten completely. (//The history of an ordinary building; why the industrialist's last word was “Rosebud."//) | ||
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- | Normal: Depending on the information sought, a particular category of the Knowledge skill may also allow a check. | ||
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- | {{tag>feat skills past}} |