Wise Skills

[foxandwarlock]

Since we started Burning Midnight, my character has had a Plains-Wise of B3. I haven't accumulated any checks towards it in all the sessions we play yet it gets FoRKED like a mother - Stealthy, Tracking, Foraging, Hunting, Orienteering, etc. I don't think we have any other Wise skills (outside of Skeld's own Plainswise) so I don't have a good sense of when they can stand on their own.

What are other people's experiences with the Wise skills?

Do they get tested on their own in your game?

Is this a circumstance where it should get checks towards advancement when it it FoRKED in?

Or is this one of those circumstances, where we should just aware a check towards it at the end of the Chapter? But that seems really slow for the amount of stuff I should be "learning"

[Thor]

We use Wises all the time on their own (and often FoRK them as well). Plains-wise would be great for stuff like: Do I know a good place to lay an ambush? Where can we find water for the horses? What kind of creature is it that's making that scary sound? Approximately where is that nomad tribe at this time of year? What do I know about that crazy hermit that's supposed to live out here?

[foxandwarlock]

Got it. Excellent.

Thanks, Thor.

[Thor]

Got it. Excellent.

Thanks, Thor.

No sweat, man. You'll also find them useful once you get the new Resources rules in your hands, and they also interface with Circles.

[foxandwarlock]

Can I roll to make my fortune in field grass trading?

Ob 2 and I hit the motherload! This is the best field grass I've ever seen! Woo! :D