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<blockquote data-quote="awayfarer" data-source="post: 3485570" data-attributes="member: 42702">At the start of my Eberron campaign I gave every PC a point in Knowledge:Local that applies to their town/place of origin. I feel that there aren't any guidelines as to what is meant by the term &quot;local&quot; though. I've been thinking along three lines...1: Knowledge:Local applies specifically to the town a PC grew up in. I feel like this makes the most sense; after all how much more &quot;local&quot; can you get than that? On the other hand, it creates a problem for PC's who were nomadic and makes the skill fairly useless if a PC hailed from, say, Ratville (Pop 34). It also means that it's a crappy skill if PC's travel alot.2: Knowledge:Local applies to a region, such as Breland in Eberron or Zathisk in the Scarred Lands. Broadening the skill to an entire region makes it much more useful, and it's not terribly difficult to believe that a PC would learn something about the area/country that they grew up in. I'm leaning towards this.3: Knowledge:Local is a skill that can be applied anywhere one travels. A point in this skill lets a PC know something about any area they travel in. Seems a bit much and the only (weak) justification for it that I can see is that there is nothing explicitly stating that the skill is limited to an area.Anyone? How have you used this skill in your games?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="awayfarer, post: 3485570, member: 42702"] At the start of my Eberron campaign I gave every PC a point in Knowledge:Local that applies to their town/place of origin. I feel that there aren't any guidelines as to what is meant by the term "local" though. I've been thinking along three lines... 1: Knowledge:Local applies specifically to the town a PC grew up in. I feel like this makes the most sense; after all how much more "local" can you get than that? On the other hand, it creates a problem for PC's who were nomadic and makes the skill fairly useless if a PC hailed from, say, Ratville (Pop 34). It also means that it's a crappy skill if PC's travel alot. 2: Knowledge:Local applies to a region, such as Breland in Eberron or Zathisk in the Scarred Lands. Broadening the skill to an entire region makes it much more useful, and it's not terribly difficult to believe that a PC would learn something about the area/country that they grew up in. I'm leaning towards this. 3: Knowledge:Local is a skill that can be applied anywhere one travels. A point in this skill lets a PC know something about any area they travel in. Seems a bit much and the only (weak) justification for it that I can see is that there is nothing explicitly stating that the skill is limited to an area. Anyone? How have you used this skill in your games? [/QUOTE]

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