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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahglock" data-source="post: 4263952" data-attributes="member: 56725">Sounds great, but I don't really think it helped all together that much.Assuming you don't use knowledge skill, or failed at the roll with your gnoll encounter what would be different.  Would you have charged in blindly?  Or would you of scouted out the situation, gone to the places they attacked, tracked where they came from, and used a ton of skills not tied to intelligence in order to gain the information anyways.  All knowledge skill local did here is replace a gather information check for pulling together some information.  So knowledge local gets you the information or going where you plan on going anyways and asking someone a question gets you the information.  And yeah sure in towns it can totally give you circumstance bonuses for the skills you actually will be suing for solving the problem.  They are great support skills, but they are not the actual skills you use to solve the problem.  Those skills may get a benefit from using knowledge skills, but the lions share of the result comes from the core skill being used.</blockquote>