By succeeding at a Gather Information skill check (DC 10)—given an evening with a few gold pieces to use for buying drinks, making friends, and such—the character can get a general understanding of a city’s major news items, assuming others have no obvious rea- sons to withhold the information. The higher the check result, the better the information.
If a character wants to find out about a specific rumor, specific item, obtain a map, or do something else along those lines, the dif- ficulty increases to anywhere from DC 15 to 25 or higher.
Retry: Yes, but because each check takes an evening or so to complete, characters may draw attention to themselves if they repeatedly pursue a certain type of information.
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