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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blackadder" data-source="post: 1247253" data-attributes="member: 13954">I'd personally treat it like most other systems do.  The more specific the knowledge skill, the easier the roll to know something about the subject.Someone with knowledge(history) has a chance to know anything about any historic event.  Knowing the name of the king of micronesia's mistress in 800ad  would be possible to know, but a really high DC.Having knowledge (micronesian history circa 600ad-900ad) would mean you'd have a really easy check to figure out that bit of information, but you'd know absolutly nothing about the great beer riots of 1972.I don't think giving bonuses is all that... balanced.  At level 1 +2/-1 for specialization bonus/penalty is all well and good.   at 20th its meaningless.Perhaps allow skill stacking (but only get the stat bonus once):10 ranks knowledge (history)2 ranks knowledge (dwarven history)So you have 12 ranks with dwarves, 10 with general.  Basically allow the player to determine HOW specialized he is rather than some one size fits all bonus.  Sure, it might allow someone to get more ranks than strictly allowed at any given level, but I've yet to be in a game where a first level character have 8 ranks in knowledge (elven love songs) would really be all that unbalancing.</blockquote>