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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1055116" data-attributes="member: 259">Again, I disagree -- surprising, eh? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Quick --  tell me the following years:When Columbus arrived in the United StatesWhen the Declaration of Independence was signedWhen the Civil War began and endedWhen the Civil Rights Act was signedWhen the Normans invaded EnglandI consider these all to be DC 5-15 Knowledge (History) checks.  Nobody from the US with a single rank in Knowledge (history) ought to get the first two incorrect; nobody with two ranks ought to get the third one incorrect; and nobody with three or four ranks ought to get the fourth and fifth ones incorrect.If you roll, however, someone with five ranks in history and an Int of 15 will still miss DC 15 checks about a third of the time.  I don't like that at all.  A lot of facts about subjects are really core knowledge for scholars in that field, and shouldn't be forgotten by them a third of the time.Daniel</blockquote>