Lore/Knowledge Skills This new skill category includes any skill that covers factual knowledge of a specific area, time period, culture, mythology, ritual or system of beliefs. These skills are distinct from social skills that cover cultural or religious matters: a high level in a Lore/Knowledge skill simply indicates that the user has memorized many facts, rituals or tales, not that he necessarily understands them! Likewise, these skills differ from "soft" scientific skills (like Occultism or Philosophy), because they do not give the user any special ability to think comparatively, formulate new hypotheses or engage in debate -- they simply give him a source of specific information. Sports trivia is as much a Lore/Knowledge skill as is knowledge of an Aztec sacrifice ritual! The Area Knowledge and Heraldry skills from the Basic Set are good examples of Lore/Knowledge skills.