Editing Skill Descriptions (section)

==KNOWLEDGE== 
INT, SPECIALTY, TRAINED ONLY
This skill encompasses several specialties, each treated as a separate skill. The
Knowledge specialties, and the topics each one encompasses, are as follows:
• Arcane Lore: The occult, magic and the supernatural, astrology,
numerology, and similar topics.
• Art: Fine arts and graphic arts, including art history and artistic
techniques. Antiques, modern art, photography, and performance art
forms such as music and dance, among others.
• Behavioral Sciences: Psychology, sociology, and criminology.
• Business: Business procedures, investment strategies, and corporate
structures. Bureaucratic procedures and how to navigate them.
• Civics: Law, legislation, litigation, and legal rights and obligations.
Political and governmental institutions and processes.
• Current Events: Recent happenings in the news, sports, politics,
entertainment, and foreign affairs.
• Earth Sciences: Geology, geography, oceanography, and paleontology.
• History: Events, personalities, and cultures of the past. Archaeology
and antiquities.
• Life Sciences: Biology, botany, genetics, medicine, and forensics.
• Physical Sciences: Astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, physics, and
engineering.
• Popular Culture: Popular music and personalities, genre films and
books, urban legends, comic books, science fiction, gaming, and trivia.
• Streetwise: Street and urban culture, local underworld personalities
and events.
• Tactics: Techniques and strategies for disposing and maneuvering
forces in combat.
• Technology: Current developments in cutting-edge devices, as well as
the background necessary to identify various technological devices.
• Theology and Philosophy: Liberal arts, ethics, philosophical concepts,
and the study of religious faith, practice, and experience.
Check: Make a Knowledge check to answer a question in your field. The
DC is 10 for easy questions, 15 for basic questions, and 20 to 30 for difficult
questions. You can make a Knowledge (technology) or Knowledge
(arcane lore) check to identify devices associated with those areas of
knowledge. The GM may make a Knowledge roll for you, so you don’t
know whether or not your information is accurate.
Try Again: No. The check represents what a character knows, and thinking
about a topic a second time doesn’t let you know something you
didn’t know before. The GM may allow another Knowledge check if a character
gets access to a better source of information. For example, a hero
who doesn’t know the answer to a particular question off-hand might get
another check with access to a library or online database (and could take
10 or take 20 on that check, depending on the circumstances).
Action: A Knowledge check can be a reaction, but otherwise requires a
full-round action. Taking 20 on a Knowledge check requires at least an
hour, longer if the GM decides the information you’re looking for is particularly
obscure or otherwise restricted.
Special: An untrained Knowledge check is simply an Intelligence check.
Without actual training, a character can only answer easy or basic questions
about a topic.
You can take 10 when making a Knowledge check. You can take 20
only if you have access to research materials (such as a library or online
database) that allow you to keep looking for the answer.