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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9492543" data-attributes="member: 29398">While it's true that any given character will know a lot about its world, I posit that the vast majority of that knowledge would rarely if ever be applicable while adventuring.A farmer will know a lot about the soil and plants where her farm is, and probably a fair bit about livestock.&nbsp; She'll also very likely be familiar with weather patterns in her home area, and with the night sky*; and she'll be familiar with wildlife local to her farm.&nbsp; This knowledge comes with the farmer when she joins an adventuring party as a Fighter.A baker will know about yeast and dough and grain and what temperature to set an oven to, and may (if he was selling his own goods) or may not (if he wasn't and someone else was doing the selling) know some about trade and commerce.&nbsp; He'll also know his way around the town or city where his home and bakery are.&nbsp; This knowledge comes with the baker when he also joins the party as a Fighter.In neither case is any of this (here understated and in fact fairly extensive) knowledge of any use whatsoever when fighting Orcs three countries south of home.Casters of any type will very likely have a wider scope of &quot;book learnin'&quot; knowledge picked up during their pre-adventuring training, but by no means will they be omniscient and sometimes what they've been told or taught might not be correct at all.* - exception: knowledge of the night sky can be of use in the field, for navigation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9492543, member: 29398"] While it's true that any given character will know a lot about its world, I posit that the vast majority of that knowledge would rarely if ever be applicable while adventuring. A farmer will know a lot about the soil and plants where her farm is, and probably a fair bit about livestock. She'll also very likely be familiar with weather patterns in her home area, and with the night sky*; and she'll be familiar with wildlife local to her farm. This knowledge comes with the farmer when she joins an adventuring party as a Fighter. A baker will know about yeast and dough and grain and what temperature to set an oven to, and may (if he was selling his own goods) or may not (if he wasn't and someone else was doing the selling) know some about trade and commerce. He'll also know his way around the town or city where his home and bakery are. This knowledge comes with the baker when he also joins the party as a Fighter. In neither case is any of this (here understated and in fact fairly extensive) knowledge of any use whatsoever when fighting Orcs three countries south of home. Casters of any type will very likely have a wider scope of "book learnin'" knowledge picked up during their pre-adventuring training, but by no means will they be omniscient and sometimes what they've been told or taught might not be correct at all. * - exception: knowledge of the night sky [I]can[/I] be of use in the field, for navigation. [/QUOTE]

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