Forgery Skill

General Skills Rules:
Taking 10: If you are not threatened or distracted you can take 10 on a roll.
Taking 20: when you have plenty of time, 2 minutes or more and faced with no threats or distractions, you can take 20. This does not count as a ‘natural 20’ and indicate automatic success. Generally this takes 20 times longer than normal. You can’t take 20 on any check that has consequences for failure.
“1” Rolls: When you roll a natural 1 on a skill check, roll D20 again. SUBTRACT this number from your check. “20” Rolls: When you roll a natural 20 on a skill check, roll D20 again. Add this number plus the 20 to your check.
Forgery (Int) No Retries

• Requires a check only when the document is seen and is opposed by the other’s forgery check.
• Forging a short or simple document takes 1 minute, larger ones take 1d4 minutes per page.
• Forgery requires writing materials appropriate to the document being forged, enough light or sufficient visual acuity to see the details of what you’re writing, wax for seals (if appropriate), and some time.
• To forge a document on which the handwriting is not specific to a person (military orders, a government decree, a business ledger, or the like), you need only to have seen a similar document before, and you gain a +8 bonus on your check.
• To forge a signature, you need an autograph of that person to copy, and you gain a +4 bonus on the check.
• To forge a longer document written in the hand of some particular person, a large sample of that person’s handwriting is needed.
• You can forge documents that provide a +2 circumstance bonus on a specific bluff, diplomacy or intimidate check if it fits the situation (COAD).

Condition Reader’s Forgery Check Modifier

• Type of Document unknown to reader -2
• Type of Document somewhat known to reader +0
• Type of Document well Known to reader +2
• Handwriting not known to reader -2
• Handwriting somewhat known to reader +0
• Handwriting Intimately known to reader +2
• Reader Only casually reviews the document -2
• Document Contradicts Given policies/orders to a degree +2
• Document Contradicts Given Policies/orders to a large degree +4