Knowledge: Trivia

The knowledge: trivia is a background knowledge skill which represents your character keeping up on things that may or may not even matter. He watches Jeopardy, remembers what actors were in what movies, knows a bunch of old commercial Jingles.

The knowledge: trivia is designed to act as the "bardic" knowledge so that people with strong ranks in this have a chance (albeit small) to happen to have heard something about any topic, guaranteeing its relevance.

The TN for knowledge:trivia is 4 higher than for the appropriate knowledge. (So TN6 check for knowledge metahumans is TN 10 for knowledge:trivia). The college education edge lowers this to 2 higher. This is not a "penalty" so cannot be offset by other items that decrease "penalites". It is a knowledge skill, so effects that increase dice on knowledge skills increase this roll also. Aptitude may apply to this also.

If you have both the knowledge: trivia AND the relevant knowledge skill, you may use knowledge:trivia as a suppliment to the valid knowledge skill at no further penalty. (So if you have knowledge: trivia 6 and knowledge: gang id 6, and you must roll on gang ID, you may use your trivia as a flat suppliment).

Active Trivia: Sometimes the GM may call for a knowledge: trivia check specifically. In this case the TN is not increased by anything, and the character may defualt to intelligence as normal.

Defaulting: While it's true that using knowledge trivia is usually as bad as defaulting to an attribute, the TNs are not limited, so you can make a knowledge: trivia check for TNs higher than 10 (though the TN might be unreachable for you). You cannot default to intelligence for knowledge: trivia, and it has no specializations.

Oops: This skill is easier to "oops" on. Rolling 0 successes on this counts as an oops- and may reveal skewed or misleading information (or false info). For example, you might remember a movie where they broke into a safe by filling it with water, which wouldn't work in real life.

Relevant Edges:
College Education lowers the TN modifier for defaulting to Know:Trivia to 2.
Photographic Memory gives +1 die to knowledge:trivia checks.
Common Sense removes the easier to oops rule, and uses the normal oops rules for this skill.