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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 9287812" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Here's the sage's feature: "When you attempt to learn or recall a piece of lore, if you do not know that information, you often know where and from whom you can obtain it. Usually, this information comes from a library, scriptorium, university, or a sage or other learned person or creature. Your DM might rule that the knowledge you seek is secreted away in an almost inaccessible place, or that it simply cannot be found. Unearthing the deepest secrets of the multiverse can require an adventure or even a whole campaign."OK, so they won't know about local libraries or sages or whatever. This is where you, the DM, either have to know your older Ravenloft lore (i.e., the presence of multiple occult bookshops in Vallaki) or make stuff up (stick a library in one of the towns) or have them meet a learned NPC. Even if it's an NPC you have to make up.Player: OK, I missed my roll, but I should know where to find the info I need.DM: You don't recall seeing any libraries, but there was a bookshop a few streets back. Maybe the people there might have an idea of what you're looking for. And then the bookseller can recommend a book, or talk about a sage that they know who can give them the answer. Here's the folk hero background: "Since you come from the ranks of the common folk, you fit in among them with ease. You can find a place to hide, rest, or recuperate among other commoners, unless you have shown yourself to be a danger to them. They will shield you from the law or anyone else searching for you, though they will not risk their lives for you."I don't see anything about being recognized as a hero, or even as anything other than a normal commoner. So the only way this background doesn't work is if your folk hero PC is wandering around in noble clothing or clearly dangerous.And this is where you introduce an NPC that can become their new contact. And then it's up to the player to RP that out.Not really, since it seems to require very little work outside of good improv skills to actually make the PC's backgrounds workable.</blockquote>

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