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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Giltonio_Santos" data-source="post: 6258443" data-attributes="member: 36874">3.X skill system would have a hard time emulating real life academic accomplishment. As someone else already pointed out, our field of specialization becomes narrower as we advance. As a JSD student in the field of Legal Theory, I'd have no difficulty answering some pretty hard questions in that field of expertise. At the same time, though, I'd have almost no chance of answering questions about Tax Law (which happens to be really complicated in Brazil) without probably taking a lot of further research. Knowledge (Law) cannot cover that.If I had to give it a try, I'd use a skill called Scientific Research and roll with that skill. If I had to define something that certainly improves with academic accomplishment, that wouldn't be your knowledge of a subject, but your ability to go through a lot of stated knowledge about your field of expertise and refine everything until you're able to produce acceptable answers out of what you're looking for. Having 5 ranks of Knowledge in the related field would give you a synergy bonus for the roll, but everybody would be rolling Scientific Research. You could have Scientific Research (Humanities) and Scientific Research (Nature Sciences) if that sounds more realistic, though. I can assure you that, while I'm probably able to research topics in the fields of Sociology or Literature, I'd have no idea of where to start with college-level Physics or Biology.I believe that would be more accurate because, while I'm not sure about my knowledge of Law in general, I'm pretty sure that my skill as a researcher has greatly improved from my days of undergraduate to the point where I'm now. Obviously, I'm only discussing acknowledged expertise in a field through a degree, not the importance of the degree itself for that. You'll probably find PhDs/PhD students that are still mediocre researchers by that point in their career, but one would have to ask how they managed to get there, I believe.Cheers!</blockquote>

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