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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7967891" data-attributes="member: 18">Look, do you want this done right, or do you want to end up being beaten up by a half-orc bouncer in front of an entire wedding? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I have standards!And yes a wedding is a good example of where you'd definitely want to source exactly the right kind of paper particularly (and get other things right that a street urchin would probably miss before an old sage did). You might be able to get away with some approximation from a "kit" for something like an arrest warrant or a bill of sale (it's unlikely the Sherrif or a random merchant or whoever has extremely high standards and consistent paper quality), which is a one-off, but your invites are going to be directly compared to dozens of invites that the bouncers/guards have already seen that very day, and they, for once, will be closely scrutinizing them, as people may well be trying to crash. You'd definitely need an invite to work from - it'd be an auto-fail without that, though you might only need it for a twenty minutes to get the general idea. As it's an invite, likely delivered to the recipient (theoretically you) sealed, it has the advantage that it probably won't have a seal, but rather will just have a signature (or two). But it might have gold leaf scrollwork or something, depending on how rich they are.I'm assuming these are wanted to fake your way into a wedding (haven't read whole thread). It's much easier if the entire wedding is fake, then they just need to look plausible, but they're kind of not even fake then.The trouble is that forgery proficiency is a super-set of the skills needed to do calligraphy/scribe-work. Basically a forger is just a high-value scribe with specialized experience. There's nothing a calligrapher can do that he can't. If a character could choose, he should always choose forgery kit proficiency because he has all the skills possible to do calligraphy (it's literally impossible to do his job otherwise).But yes, I think a "background skill" is the right approach, because that makes a lot more sense.</blockquote>

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