Streetwise
Use: Unskilled use penalized. Normally used as a macro skill.
Sample specializations: Specific urban location, street gangs, criminal organizations, survival, black markets
Streetwise is used to get information, goods and/or make contacts in urban areas large enough to support a “shadowy” side of life. It can also be used like the survival skill for finding food, water and shelter in urban areas. When attempting to gain information with the streetwise skill, the difficulty is based on the size of the city the character is in and modified by the legality of the information being sought:
STREETWISE CHART
Condition Difficulty/modifier
Large city 8
Small city 10
Town 12
Small town 13
Very small town 15
Legal information -5
Semi-legal -2
Illegal, but generally inoffensive (asking how big of a bribe is appropriate for local law enforcement) +0
Illegal (seeking out a pickpocket) +2
Very illegal (seeking out a safecracker) +4
Highly illegal (seeking an arms smuggler) +7
Strict law enforcement +5
Moderate law enforcement +4
Light law enforcement +2
Little enforcement of the law +0
Corrupt law enforcement -
