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Investigation

Intelligence

Use this skill to appraise the value of items, decipher manuscripts, gather information, find concealed items, reveal forgeries, and size up enemies. As a general rule, characters cannot make multiple attempts at tasks using this skill.
Example Tasks
0 Characters with proficiencies with the tools to craft items they appraise make this check at advantage. 1 This check is made after a day or night of actively seeking out the information. 2 The speaker must be speaking in a language the character knows to have any chance of success. 3 Success at this check reveals general information as a comparison to the character; the foe is stronger in attack than the character or weaker in defense than the character. Failure yields no information.

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