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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoeNotCharles" data-source="post: 5776184" data-attributes="member: 79945">[sblock=OOC][MENTION=51930]fireinthedust[/MENTION]: Hooray!  You're back!Shadow Lore works like all other traits: you can do 3 thngs with it.1. If you're making a roll (such as Search to search an area, or Lore to see what you know about a subject) and your Shadow Lore is something you could use to help, you can declare that you got an ordinary success automatically, without rolling.  You won't get an Advancement Point since you didn't roll, though, and you can't get an extraordinary success this way (only by actually rolling and getting 6's).2. If you succeed at an actual roll but wouldn't get an Advancement Point (for example if you already have a point in that category, or if I say it's too trivial), and your Shadow Lore would help, you an use it to get an Advancement Point anyway.3. If something happens that I say is too hard to roll, but you think your Shadow Lore would help, you can get a roll anyway.  (You: "Can I roll Search to see if I can track the wraith?"  Me: "No.  It's a wraith.  It's not part of the physical world. It doesn't leave tracks." You: "But I have Shadow Lore!"  Me: "Ok, then you can roll Search to spot strange signs of its passing that would be mysterious to the common man.")You can see exactly what Shadow Lore applies by hovering the mouse over it on the live character sheet at <a href="http://azrapse.es/tor/sheet.html" target="_blank">The One Ring - Online Character Sheet</a>.  It's... actually a bit vague, so I'll expand.  Shadow-Lore is specifically for knowing about creatures and designs of Sauron and Morgoth (the Balrog was originally a servant of  Morgoth, Sauron's master who was defeated in the First Age).  I'll stretch it to include all sorts of wraiths, wights and other undead, too.So to look for signs of dangerous creatures, make a Search roll (target number 14).  If you want to automatically succeed, you can invoke Shadow Lore to say that you automatically find any signs of servants of the Enemy (which would include orcs).  But you would miss signs of common animals, since those aren't unnatural creatures of shadow.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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