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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 2520529" data-attributes="member: 20323">An excellent point, but also an assumption. In a more local campaign, which treat KL as a group of separate cultural skills, I think it would be fair to allow Bards and well-traveled characters to take a feat which allows KL to operate universally.Great point Tonguez! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I would also add that literacy was fairly uncommon and most people learned about such things through word of mouth. Often, a storytellers objective was to entertain or confirm a pre-existing bias (e.g. those Orientals are all sex-crazed fiends! or some other Bull<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Of course, in Baghdad they're saying the same thing about Marco Polo). Thus, KL about other cultures could be quite inaccurate. One way to represent this without forbidding using the skill would be to rule that all KL checks pertaining to a foreign culture which fail by more than 5 provide misinformation instead.Indeed, I would say that being in a major metropolis should affect the KL skill, say allowing someone who couldn't normally make a KL check about a foreign place to do so, because there is just so much information going around. Actually, the way Atlas Games handles this in Dynasties & Demagogues is to allow Gather Information checks to be made about foreign places when one is in a metropolis.I disagree. You really can argue it would be either skill. KL would represent you knowing customary prices and standards of trade, and also personalities/inhabitants likely to give you the best deal. Gather Info could represent you asking people who already have KL about the best place to buy a mule.How can I just picture a GM doing this on a failed KL check? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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