Created Saturday 27 July 2013

Use this skill to make contacts in an area, find out local gossip, spread rumors, and collect general information. Check: By succeeding at a skill check (DC 10) and spending 1d4+1 hours passing out money and buying drinks, you can get a feel for the major news items in a neighbor-hood. This result assumes that no obvious reasons exist why information would be with-held (such as if you can't speak the local lan-guage). The higher the check result, the bet-ter the information. If the situation doesn't require the ex-penditure of money, no Wealth check is nec-essary. Information ranges from general to protected, and the cost and DC increases ac-cordingly for the type of information you seek to gather, as given in the table below. General information concerns local happen-ings, rumors, gossip, and the like. Specific in-formation usually relates to a particular ques-tion. Restricted information includes facts that aren't generally known and requires that you locate someone who has access to such infor-mation. Protected information is even harder to come by and might involve some danger, either for the one asking the questions or the one providing the answer. There's a chance that someone will take note of anyone asking about restricted or protected information. You can increase the amount of mon-ey you use to gather information, gaining a circumstance bonus by effectively offering a bribe (though the process might entail buy-ing more expensive drinks, not necessarily offering a character extra money). Increase the Wealth check DC by 2 for each +1 circum-stance bonus you want to add to your skill check. For example, Brandon Cross is looking for restricted information about a military base that does not appear on any public maps. He really wants to get this information, so he increases the Wealth check DC by +2 for every +1 bonus he wants to apply to the check. In this case, he thinks he can succeed on a Wealth check against DC 22, granting him a +2 bonus on the Gather Information check if he makes it. Try Again?: Yes, but it takes 1d4+1 hours for each check, and characters may draw attention to themselves if they repeat-edly pursue a certain type of information. Special: You can take 10 when making a Gather Information check, but you cannot take 20. A character with the Trustworthy feat gets a +2 bonus on all Gather Information checks. Time: A Gather Information check takes 1d4+1 hours.

Type of Info DC Purchase DC General 10 5 “Who’s the big cheese in this town?” Specific 15 10 “What can you tell me about that woman who always travels with the ambassador?” Restricted 20 15 “What do they make at that mysterious factory?” Protected 25 20 “When is the next test flight for that secret prototype starfighter?” @skills @chabased