Post by HST Seth on Dec 19, 2013 12:03:33 GMT
Lores are a difficult thing to tackle in the World of Darkness. Lores fall under two categories in Sabbat: Political and Occult. Political Lores are lores you would roll on your Politics check; Occult, those that you would roll on your occult. Fairly Straight-forward.
In general, a lore is rolled on an Intelligence + Occult/Politics Check, but the difficulty varies based on information.
Insider vs. Outsider Lores
These are Free Occult/Politics specialties you get at character creation and account for 3 items. These items are your clan, your sect, and your supernatural type. Everyone gets these at character creation unless they take the flaws that negate them (New Kid, for example, or Victim of the Masquerade). For a Sabbat Tzimisce Vampire, these three specialties are the standard: Sabbat (Politics), Cainite (Occult), and Tzimisce (Politics/Occult). For a BSD werewolf who has grown up in a cairn, it would be Shifters (Occult), Black Spiral Dancers (Occult/Politics), and Spirits (Occult)
An Outsider Lore would be anything that you don't have contact with regularly or have little knowledge about without taking time to learn.. Things like Demon Lore, Spirit Lore, etc. These lores you are not allowed to roll without a specialty, except to get information on the level 1 tier, which you may get if you score a success on a dif 10 check on any of them.
Insider lores are always determined by the STs, and can change for different concepts, but in general, you should be familiar with the above.
Specialties in Lore
Any Lore you have a specialty or secondary in conveys a benefit to you in a descending difficulty. The difficulty to roll for information on the Lore chart is 4+the level of the lore you are looking for. So, at level 5, it would be a difficulty 9 check.
3 successes is considered a total success, but 1 and 2 successes convey parts of the information you seek. If you seek very small bits of information, the STs may decide to convey all of it at lower successes.
All characters at Emerald Coven Chronicles will receive the Occult Specialties of their Nature (usually Cainite) and their clan for free, as well as the Politics specialty of their sect (usually Sabbat). A character must have at least one dot of Occult and/or Politics at creation to gain these free specialties.
The Lore Chart
For the most part, we would use the chart from Camarilla, located here.
