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LORE

INTELLIGENCE SKILL

You have specialized information on a narrow topic. Lore features many subcategories. You might have Military Lore, Sailing Lore, Vampire Lore, or any similar subcategory of the skill. Each subcategory counts as its own skill, so applying a skill increase to Planar Lore wouldn’t increase your proficiency with Sailing Lore, for example.

You gain a specific subcategory of the Lore skill from your background. The GM determines what other subcategories they’ll allow as Lore skills, though these categories are always less broad than any of the other skills that allow you to Recall Knowledge, and they should never be able to fully or mainly take the place of another skill’s Recall Knowledge action. For instance, you couldn't choose Magic Lore to recall the breadth of knowledge about magic covered by Arcana, Nature, Occultism, and Religion, or Adventuring Lore to give you all the information an adventurer needs, or Planar Lore to gain all the information spread across various skills and subcategories such as Heaven Lore.

If you have multiple subcategories of Lore that could apply to a check or that would overlap with another skill in the circumstances, you can use the skill with the better skill modifier or the one you would prefer to use. If there’s any doubt whether a Lore skill applies to a specific topic or action, the GM decides whether it can be used or not.

Even if you’re untrained in Lore, you can use it to Recall Knowledge (page 238).

TABLE 1: LORE ACTIONS
Actions Proficiency Summary
Recall Knowledge Untrained You attempt a skill check to try to remember a bit of knowledge regarding a topic related to that skill.
Earn Income Trained You use one of your skills to make money during downtime.
TABLE 2: LORE FEATS
Untrained in Lore Level Benefits
Skill Training 1 You become trained in the skill of your choice.
Thorough ReportsLOWG 4 Your reports are thorough and informative, and putting your thoughts to paper helps you retain the information.
Trained in Lore Level Benefits
Additional Lore 1 Your knowledge has expanded to encompass a new field.
Armor AssistAPG 1 After your service aiding armored combatants, you are practiced in helping yourself and others don heavy gear.
Assurance 1 Even in the worst circumstances, you can perform basic tasks.
Contract NegotiatorLOH 1 Your experience with bargaining and deciding terms as part of Highhelm’s guilds helps you make deals in other situations.
Dubious Knowledge 1 You’re a treasure trove of information, but not all of it comes from reputable sources.
Experienced Professional 1 You carefully safeguard your professional endeavors to prevent disaster.
Ravening’s DesperationEC-03 1 Your study of the Beast of Gluttondark has taught you how to make do in the most trying of circumstances rather than succumb to weakness.
SeasonedAPG 1 You’ve mastered the preparation of many types of food and drink.
Expert in Lore Level Benefits
Automatic Knowledge 2 You know basic facts off the top of your head.
Battle PlannerAPG 2 You are constantly drawing up plans and battle scenarios, assembling strategies and gathered intelligence for later use.
Unmistakable Lore 2 You never get information about your areas of expertise wrong.
What’s That Up Your Sleeve?LOH 2 Whether as a dealer or player, you’ve learned to spot cheaters.
Master in Lore Level Benefits
Uzunjati Storytelling LOCG 6 You tell a quick story or begin telling a longer tale.
Master of ApprenticeLOH 7 Teaching is a difficult art form, but you’ve gotten a pretty good handle on it.
Recognize Threat LOCG 8 You quickly assess the threat so you can relay the information to your team.
Uzunjati Recollection LOCG 10 You tell a story spontaneously from nearly forgotten facts, delving into your memory and entertaining your audience in the process.
Legendary in Lore Level Benefits
Legendary Professional 15 Your fame has spread throughout the lands (for instance, if you have Warfare Lore, you might be a legendary general or tactician).