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@traipsehex.bsky.social

I'm not above a simple roll-under-INT for incidental knowledge but I really like the idea of burning time for knowledge. Some knowledge in my game has a level requirement, like "you need to be at least a 4th-level MU to understand these runes." Gives PCs a reason to backtrack or petition a patron.

elmcat
@elmc.at

I do like info gating occasionally but I don't like levels as much, but yeah that totally works. I'd gate information by either giving players something they must achieve or by reputation. They need to have a good standing with the library faction to get access to their vaults. Something like that.

This Vorpal Coil
@vorpalcoil.bsky.social

So many games throw out that phrase as though it were a special insight that fixes a problem every other game has, but then in practice you roll for basically everything just like every other game, because it doesn't specify anything interesting that you explicitly don't have to roll for.

Carolyn Leagues
@satur9scrypt.bsky.social

So, stuff a character just knows is all either Common (for the character's backgrounds) or stuff they've picked up from an adventure? the mechanics here don't support any other ways a character might already just know something that the player has to be told

Carolyn Leagues
@satur9scrypt.bsky.social

The system doesn't generate a way for a character to be especially knowledgeable or observant. Admittedly, l/h/s doesn't cover that either; an elf with an ability to detect nearby secret doors x-in-6 gets that info passively (like a landmark), but only sometimes (like a secret)

elmcat
@elmc.at

Oh okay. For that example I'd rule that they can just use their ability and treat it as Obscure without the cost/risk if the fiction allows it but the player would need to say they are invoking the ability. If I want to stay in the framework. Other characters have to spent time or risk to find it