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 ====== Scholarship ======
-Scholarship is a character's "book learning" knowledge that does not fall under [[Performance]] or [[Lore]]. The main use of this skill is to answer questions concerning history, language, culture, and literature. There is some overlap with other knowledge skills and when in doubt allow the character to use their highest skill.
+Scholarship represents the knowledge of the physical sciences, engineering, history and culture. Its two counterparts are Lore which covers the arcane and supernatural and [[Survival]] which covers Natural sciences and Geographical Lore. Scholarship determines the number of additional languages you know.
+===== Actions =====
+==== Overcome ====
+You can use Scholarship to overcome any obstacle that requires applying knowledge of the physical sciences or engineering to achieve a goal. For example, you might roll Scholarship to build a bridge across a chasm, under the presumption that your character might have studied it at some point.
+Frankly, you can use Scholarship as a go-to skill any time you need to know if your character can answer a difficult question, where some tension exists in not knowing the answer.
+==== Create an Advantage ====
+Like Investigation, Scholarship 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 Scholarship 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 Scholarship to Create an Advantage based on any subject matter your character might have studied, which gives you a fun way to add details to the setting.
+==== Attack ====
+Scholarship isn't used to attack. When debating Provoke or Rapport is used to attack, while Scholarship is used to create an advantage based upon your knowledge.
+==== Defend ====
+Scholarship isn't used to defend.
+==== Special ====
+Scholarship determine the number of additional languages you know. You get a number of Languages equal to your Scholarship rating + 1. If you have a Fair(+2) Scholarship you know 3 languages. It is assumed you will take your native language as your first choice, but it is not required.
+==== Rating ====
 ^ Difficulty  ^ Obscurity  ^ Example  ^
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-===== Trappings =====
-==== Research ====
-Failing an initial scholarship roll, the character can go into a [[workspace|library]] to do further research. The most difficult question a library can answer is equal to its quality. Each margin of failure requires a step on the [[tables|Time Increment Table]] with a starting time of half an hour to find the answer.
-==== Exposition and Knowledge ====
+===== Stunts =====
-The Story Teller can use the character with scholarship to impart information to the group. Typically this is done with either the character with the highest skill or a character that has a supporting aspect. False or misleading information should result in [[Fate Points]] given.
-==== Declare Minor Details ====
-A player can use their Scholarship skill to make minor declarations to fill in story details not explicitly given. The Story Teller can veto any detail too sweeping, contradictory, silly or difficult to work into the story. If the Story Teller agrees then the player can roll to successfully make a [[actions#declarations|declaration]]. Failure could result in a "Mistaken" temporary aspect placed upon the character allowing a future compel against this wrong information.
-==== Languages ====
+==== It's Common Knowledge ====
-A character can speak one language, not counting his native tongue, for each point of Scholarship above Mediocre(+0). These languages do not need to be applied beforehand, but once declared they do not change.
+You've read hundreds - if not thousands - of books on a wide variety of topics. You can spend a fate point to use Scholarship in place of any other skill for one roll or exchange, provided you can justify having read about the action you're attempting.
-==== The Truth ====
-To plant bad information the player decides the general question they wish to obscure and must have access to the library the target will use for their research. They set up a [[actions#declarations|block]] on the library using Scholarship modified by [[Deceit]] against that information. If anyone using that library overcomes the block they will uncover the false information and recognizes it for what it is. The block is only removed by overcoming it.
+==== Linguist ====
+You gain 5 additional languages
+==== Gift of Tongues ====
+//Requires Linguist// You can read, write, and speak any mainstream language.
+==== Scholar ====
+You gain a +1 bonus to all knowledge of a specific field of study. This bonus is +2 for a single specialty within that field of study.
+==== Dizzying Intellect ====
+You may use Scholarship in place of Deceive when using scholarly information.
-===== Stunts =====
-^ Stunt ^ Prerequisite ^ Description  ^  Page((Page numbers are in the Legends of Anglerre book until otherwise noted)) ^
+==== Rhetoric and Debate ====
-| Linguist  |   | Additional 5 languages  |  64 |
+You may use Scholarship in place of Rapport to debate a scholarly issue.
-| Gift of Tongues  | Linguist  | Gain any mainstream language  |  64 |
-| Walking Library  |   | You are a library equal to your skill, -1 Time in  Library  |  64 |
-| Perfect Memory  | Walking Library  | -2 Time research what you know, Photographic recall  |  65 |
-| Studied Recall  | Perfect Memory  | FP to recall shifts in details  |  65 |
-| Scholar  |   | +1 bonus to single field, +2 for specialization  |  65 |
-| Dizzying Intellect  |   | Instead of [[Deceit]] when using your field of study  |  65 |
-| It’s Academic  | Scholar  | Once/session you can create a link between your field  |  65 |
-| Rhetoric and Debate  | Scholar  | Instead of [[Rapport]] in social conflicts  |  66 |
-| Forgery Expert  |   | +2 bonus to distinguish forged documents  |   155((DFRPG Your Story)) |
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