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<blockquote data-quote="satori01" data-source="post: 2059559" data-attributes="member: 7859">The funny thing about Knowledge(local), is if you live in a big city, you realize that as a skill it can come quite in handy.In real life I live in Los Angeles, and as most Angelenos can tell you knowing the quickest route, or best restaurant of X type,&nbsp; or what time of day a street or freeway has the worst traffic can make a huge impact.&nbsp; Suddenly I realized that in game terms that all people that move to a big city and get acclimated start acquiring knowledge(local).Thus,I have had players use their knowledge (local) skill to take a side alley and try to cut off a fleeing oponent, or to know on the fly while in disguise&nbsp; as a tanner, where the best bakery in the Guild District is, so on and so forth.&nbsp; Another thing I can suggest is for players to use knowledge ranks with their DM.&nbsp; If you tell your DM &quot;Hey I have 8 ranks in knowledge History cant I know anything about x&quot; and keep on trying to use the skill your DM will either start accomadating you or eventually tell you to redistribute your skill points.Luckily my players like knowledge skills, it has allowed me to run an adventure where the whole goal was to return themselves to normal from being out of phase,(ethereal in essences), most of the adventure was them making various skill checks, assimiliting the information, and then trying to solve the problem.&nbsp; It was a blast.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="satori01, post: 2059559, member: 7859"] The funny thing about Knowledge(local), is if you live in a big city, you realize that as a skill it can come quite in handy. In real life I live in Los Angeles, and as most Angelenos can tell you knowing the quickest route, or best restaurant of X type, or what time of day a street or freeway has the worst traffic can make a huge impact. Suddenly I realized that in game terms that all people that move to a big city and get acclimated start acquiring knowledge(local). Thus,I have had players use their knowledge (local) skill to take a side alley and try to cut off a fleeing oponent, or to know on the fly while in disguise as a tanner, where the best bakery in the Guild District is, so on and so forth. Another thing I can suggest is for players to use knowledge ranks with their DM. If you tell your DM "Hey I have 8 ranks in knowledge History cant I know anything about x" and keep on trying to use the skill your DM will either start accomadating you or eventually tell you to redistribute your skill points. Luckily my players like knowledge skills, it has allowed me to run an adventure where the whole goal was to return themselves to normal from being out of phase,(ethereal in essences), most of the adventure was them making various skill checks, assimiliting the information, and then trying to solve the problem. It was a blast. [/QUOTE]

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