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<blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 2390079" data-attributes="member: 23094"><p>Gather Information doesn't necessarily give you the truth - but it'll tell you what the people you spend the evening hanging out with *believe* is the truth.</p><p></p><p>For instance, the "real" head of a town council is actually a vampire. However, he's passing himself off as a nobleman, merchant, and wizard. He's also got a puppet on the council who acts as the council's chief. Low DC GI checks (heh ... GI) will tell you the town's run by a council, and probably the names and occupations of some key members. Slightly higher DC checks will tell you the names and occupations of almost all the members, and maybe some of their public policy positions. Higher DC checks will let you know who's actually allied with who on most issues, assuming the council's meetings aren't conducted in secret. Even higher DC checks will tell you that, generally speaking, the lead guy on the council is Mr. X, and maybe some of the major debate in the council even if the meetings are secret.</p><p></p><p>There's no GI DC to determine that Mr. X is secretly the vampire's lackey, because it isn't "public domain" knowledge. There might be a rumor that they're close friends, or lovers, or whatever, but the exact nature of the relationship is only known to a few.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Patryn of Elvenshae, post: 2390079, member: 23094"] Gather Information doesn't necessarily give you the truth - but it'll tell you what the people you spend the evening hanging out with *believe* is the truth. For instance, the "real" head of a town council is actually a vampire. However, he's passing himself off as a nobleman, merchant, and wizard. He's also got a puppet on the council who acts as the council's chief. Low DC GI checks (heh ... GI) will tell you the town's run by a council, and probably the names and occupations of some key members. Slightly higher DC checks will tell you the names and occupations of almost all the members, and maybe some of their public policy positions. Higher DC checks will let you know who's actually allied with who on most issues, assuming the council's meetings aren't conducted in secret. Even higher DC checks will tell you that, generally speaking, the lead guy on the council is Mr. X, and maybe some of the major debate in the council even if the meetings are secret. There's no GI DC to determine that Mr. X is secretly the vampire's lackey, because it isn't "public domain" knowledge. There might be a rumor that they're close friends, or lovers, or whatever, but the exact nature of the relationship is only known to a few. [/QUOTE]
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