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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1233751" data-attributes="member: 1465">I think it's a very controversial subject. First of all, a piece of information can either be in a library or otherwise not be there, in which case no way to find it. Second, the character must face the task of finding that piece of information. Third, the character who finds the information may or may not have trouble in recognizing it has found the answer.About the first thing, only the DM chooses or otherwise he can even roll a % if the party wants to check a random town's library. Clearly, the bigger the library the more chance it has to keep the answer, but also it may be more difficult to find, or simply take more time for every check. The second task could be argued that it doesn't depend from being trained in a specific knowledge, but the third instead should depend on it.In any case, it is simply too complicated to go this way or similar, when after all the DM just has to decide if they find it or not. Unless you really need to flesh out the details of this process (maybe you are desiging a long adventure around the task of finding the 7 lost formulas to open the gates of heaven, which are scattered throughout the worlds' most ancient libraries...), I would suggest you to just go with a Knowledge check with bonus granted by the library, but anyway allowing an untrained Int check if no one has the skill.</blockquote>