Info:
This skill represents familiarity with the people, places, and politics of a given region.
You usually have Area Knowledge only for the area you consider your “home base,” whether that’s a single farm or a city.
Modifiers:
Neighborhood: +5
For an urban area: the residents and buildings of a few city blocks. For a rural area: the inhabitants, trails, streams, hiding places, ambush sites, flora, and fauna of a few hundred acres.
Village or Town: +3
All important citizens and businesses, and most unimportant ones; all public buildings and most houses.
City: +/- 0
All important businesses, streets, citizens, leaders, etc.
Barony, County, Duchy, or Small Nation: -3
General nature of its settlements and towns, political allegiances, leaders.
Large Nation:-7
Location of its major cities and important sites; awareness of its major customs, ethnic groups, and languages (but not necessarily expertise) and a general understanding of the
economic and political situation.