[RPG] Does Bardic Knowledge Encompass all other knowledge skills

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If not,what Knowledge's would bardic Knowledge cover?

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Bardic knowledge is, effectively, about stories.

A bard may make a special bardic knowledge check [...] to see whether he knows some relevant information about local notable people, legendary items, or noteworthy places.

So bardic knowledge can supply information you could know from any Knowledge skill, but it will only provide information that’s famous, interesting, funny, or so on—it will only provide information that makes for a good story. It will not provide technical details, boring treatises, or full family trees or organizational charts—unless those details form the climax of a story or punch-line of a joke.

Things that could be obtained with relatively low Knowledge skill checks thus may be unavailable to bardic knowledge, or else only available with a relatively high check. On the flip side, bardic knowledge covers a much broader array of fields to know something about.

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