Lore skill

The Lore skill is all about the supernatural and arcane knowledge. General knowledge and education one can find under the Science skill.

O

Overcome: You can use Lore to overcome any obstacle that requires applying your character’s knowledge to achieve a goal. For example, you might roll Lore to decipher some ancient language on a tomb wall, under the presumption that your character might have researched it at some point. Frankly, you can use Lore as a go-to skill for the supernatural any time you need to know if your character can answer a difficult question, where some tension exists in not knowing the answer.

C

Create advantage: Like Investigate, Lore provides a lot of very flexible opportunities to create advantages, provided you can research the subject in question. More often than not, you’ll be using Lore to get a story detail, some obscure bit of information that you uncover or know already, but if that information gives you an edge in a future scene, it might take the form of an aspect. Likewise, you can use Lore to create advantages based on any subject matter your character might have studied, which gives you a fun way to add details to the setting.

A

Attack: Lore isn’t used in conflicts.

D

Defend: Lore isn’t used to defend.

Stunts

• I’ve Read about That! You’ve read hundreds—if not thousands—of books and scrolls on a wide variety of magical topics. You can spend a fate point to use Lore in place of any other magical skill for one roll or exchange, provided you can justify having read about the action you’re attempting.