Speed Reading
SPEED READING
Cost: 2 Karma
When you found out the professor was offering an open-book final that could count as one hundred percent of your grade, you covered a year's tuition by betting you could ace it without ever attending a single class. With this quality, a character can read though a full page of written text (about 800 words) in about five seconds or an 800-page textbook in about an hour. The information read is not memorised (unless the character also possesses the Photographic Memory quality, CRB 76, which allows a test for anything in the book after it is read), but the reader can gain a basic understanding of the contents. If attempting to locate a specific piece of information, phrase, or subject while in the process of reading, the character can attempt a Logic + Intuition Extended Test with a threshold and interval determined by the gamemaster based on the length of the text, its complexity, and the obscurity of the information being sought.
Cost: 2 Karma
When you found out the professor was offering an open-book final that could count as one hundred percent of your grade, you covered a year's tuition by betting you could ace it without ever attending a single class. With this quality, a character can read though a full page of written text (about 800 words) in about five seconds or an 800-page textbook in about an hour. The information read is not memorised (unless the character also possesses the Photographic Memory quality, CRB 76, which allows a test for anything in the book after it is read), but the reader can gain a basic understanding of the contents. If attempting to locate a specific piece of information, phrase, or subject while in the process of reading, the character can attempt a Logic + Intuition Extended Test with a threshold and interval determined by the gamemaster based on the length of the text, its complexity, and the obscurity of the information being sought.
RF 149 - 150