I've been thinking a bit about the Knowledge: Local skill, and what it really should represent, and how I will handle it in this game.<br/><br/>By definition it covers "legends, personalities, inhabitants, laws, customs, traditions, humanoids".<br/><br/>It's the "personalities" and (and to a lesser extend "humanoids") part that I am unhappy with. The people in your local area you shold know, even without any knowledge skill, and for people from faraway places what someone 'knows' isn't really knowledge, but probably amounts to nothing more than rumors and legends.<br/><br/><strong>So lets forget about that aspect of Knowledge: Local. What we will use it for in this game are "legends, laws, customs, traditions".</strong><br/><br/>That also frees me from making decisions what area should be covered by it. As the inhabitants of Lancrest and the Frontier Baronies largely share the same traditions and customs, Knowledge: Local will apply to the whole of Lancrest and the Baronies.<br/><br/>What I am yet undecided about is if 5 ranks or more in Knowledge: Local should really provide a bonus to Gather Information. I just don't see how it would provide a bonus fo that. Instead I am tending towards making that a +2 bonus to Perform instead. Knowledge of legends and customs should help a performer perhaps not with the actual performance, but maybe with chosing their repertoire. One this I'd like to invite your opinions.<br/><br/><hr/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">May I claim the building marked in red as the home of the Grovers?  My character is an orchard-keepers daughter, and they tend apple, pear, and plum orchards just to the east, and also some technically wild berry patches on the slopes of the Three Pigs.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>That would place your family on John Druel's land, making them his tenants. For a more independent family I'd suggest the one to the right of it, last house on the north road. If you look at the village surroundings map you'll see there's a nice little orchard not far from it, just a bit further along the north road and it's still only about half a mile from the Three Pigs.