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Hello all! This is an idea I obtained from the Secrets of Skelos Conan RPG expansion - if you ahve access to a book or a library, it can give you a knowledge skill bonus.
Books and libraries can be researched to give bonuses to certain knowledge rolls when they are made. It takes 1 hour to research a single book and longer to research a collection of books. Books and libraries give bonuses to one or more knowledge skills. After researching them for the time taken, the hero may get a +1 bonus to a knowledge roll that uses one of the skills in the library. Another research period may be made again to get another +1 bonus (so two research periods give a +2 bonus) and another knowledge roll. However, books and libraries have a maximum bonus that cannot be exceeded.
A single book will usually only give a +1 bonus in a single knowledge skill. A huge library, such as King Salomon’s palace library would give a +6 bonus to many knowledge skills.
Size Maximum total knowledge bonusResearch time Example
Single book+2 1 hour A single tome
Small library+4 2 hoursAbout a dozen books.
Medium library+8 3 hours Tens of books.
Large library+16 4 hours A shelf of books and scrolls (about 100)
Huge Library+32 8 hours Hundreds of books and scrolls.
Gigantic library+64 12 hours A great vault with thousands of books and scrolls.
Colossal library+128 24 hours A library the size of a town or small city.
A hero needs to know the language that the books are written in to make use of them. This means having at least 4 points in the required language. Of course, if the hero has a book that helps them translate – a sort of Rosetta Stone – then they can research that until they get a +4 bonus in the language required and then research the other books.
Example libraries:
A nobles’ library may be a medium library on many topics. It may have the following bonuses: World Lore +2, Etiquette +2, History Lore +2, Stewardship +2.
A wizard will have a larger library as they gather information about the world.
Bonuses: World Lore +3, Languages – Ancient Allansian +3, Secret Signs +3, City Lore – Blacksand +3, History Lore +3.
Statistics: Posted by Slloyd14 — Sat Aug 13, 2016 6:49 pm
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