7.3 Analysis (Int)

The Analysis skill represents your ability to analyze information in front of you. This includes sifting through information to identify relevant details, making logical deductions based on evidence, and identifying suspicious flaws. However, this skill cannot protect you from coming to inaccurate conclusions if you rely on inaccurate or incomplete facts and observations.

7.3.1 Common Analysis Tasks

Identify Disguise: If you succeed at an opposed Analysis vs. Disguise check, you can determine whether a creature or object is disguised.

Identify Forgery: If you succeed at an opposed Analysis vs. Craft check, you can determine whether an object is a forgery.

Identify Relevant Details: You can make an Analysis check to understand what aspects of your environment are important and why. This can be used to scan a room, or to sift through information like a long book. If important details are concealed, this may require a successful Awareness check to notice them.

Correctly identifying relevant details generally takes ten times longer than it would take to skim the relevant information. That means it takes about a minute to scan a typically sized room, but hours or days to sift through books. You can automatically attempt to identify relevant details as part of seeing information for the first time, but you take a -10 penalty to this check.

Reach Conclusion: You can combine information that you know to reach a specific conclusion. This may require other checks, such as Knowledge or Analysis checks, to ensure that you have enough information to work with. The time required to reach a conclusion can vary dramatically depending on how much evidence you have to work with and how easy the conclusion is to reach. You can reach simple conclusions immediately after learning all of the relevant information, but complicated scenarios might require days of study and analysis to eliminate all possibilities. In general, sifting through a mixture of helpful and misleading evidence increases the difficulty of the Analysis check and the time required to complete it.

Understand Personal Effect: When an ability affects you, you can make an Analysis check to understand its effects. You can make another check when the ability ends if you didn’t understand it initially. The difficulty value of this check is 5 + twice the rank of the ability. If the ability is Subtle, the difficulty value increases by 10.