I could see removing the "Literacy" skill and replacing it with a minor Edge. If you have the Literacy Edge, then you can roll Brains & Ancient Lore to make sense of ancient writings (or modern ones, if you can find them). This implies that it's difficult to make sense of ancient writings unless you have some idea what the words mean. After all, even if you can sound it out phonetically, if you have no idea what a car is, you won't understand "The car was fast."
In Savage Worlds they had specialized Knowledge skills like "Knowledge (Stonework)" but anything that was "Common Knowledge" just used a Smarts roll modified by your character background.
But since my system allows us to combine skills easily, I'm leaning towards an "Expert (Stonework)" skill. "Expert" is a little more general than Knowledge, and applies to almost anything done in that field... including making it, repairing it, and destroying it.
Posted by Kiz at June 2, 2004 10:43 PMCommentsPost a comment