Background Knowledge

1 point

You have a background that gives you skill defaults avail-
able only to those who grew up or lived in a specific locale,
worked in a particular profession, etc. This doesn’t grant the
skills, nor does it give defaults for skills that normally have no
default for anyone. It merely allows default rolls for things that
the GM feels aren’t general knowledge in the game world. For
instance, any New Yorker could try Area Knowledge, Current
Affairs (Regional), Geography (Regional), History, or Law
(Municipal) for New York at default. If he wanted the same
benefits for Chicago, that would be a perk.
The GM should give the benefits of appropriate Background
Knowledge for free to any PC with a decent backstory. This
perk exists to let players simply declare they have some hard-
to-justify history without explanation, or play PCs with
implausibly broad past experiences.