FATE Da Cool Shit! Skill: Knowledge

Overcome: You can use Knowledge to overcome any obstacle that requires applying your character’s knowledge to achieve a goal. For example, you might roll Knowledge to decipher some ancient language on a tomb wall, under the presumption that your character might have researched it at some point. Frankly, you can use Knowledge 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, Knowledge 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 Knowledge 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 Knowledge to create advantages based on any subject matter your character might have studied, which gives you a fun way to add details to the setting.

Example Stunts:

• I’ve Read about That!. You’ve read thousands of books. You can spend 1 fate point (FP) to roll Knowledge in place of any other common skill for one roll or exchange, provided you can justify having read about the very action you’re attempting.
• Shield of Reason. You can defend with Knowledge against a Provoke attempt, provided you can reason it aloud.
• Specialist. Choose an academic field of specialized knowledge. You get +2 to all applicable Knowledge rolls.