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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pax" data-source="post: 586905" data-attributes="member: 6875">Better would be to rate the Library itself for how thorough / comprehensive it's resources are, in reference to the question at hand.  Apply that as a circumstance bonus to the check and still allow the character to Take 10 (if it's "The Great Imperial Library" and covers hundreds of acres of land, to a height of 5 stories aboveground and ten stories below, chock full of books, scrolls, and other manuscripts ... it might be worth a +30 circumstance bonus).Then, of course, apply a different base time, or a modifier to the normal base time, based on the size of the library overall.  Hunting through a library typically takes hours, days, even months and years (the Great Imperial Library above would likely have a base time for research ranigng from a a day to a week (simple, common topics) to perhaps ten years (ludicrously obscure information)).Hunting through hundreds fo books, scrolls, and so on take a lot longer than scratching yoru chin and trying to dredge a memory out of yoru own brain, after all.  But tends to bear more fruit, in the long run.</blockquote>