if you in ICE’s crosshairs for getting pulled over or picked up, that interaction is going to stay with you for the rest of your life, even if “everything goes fine” or whatever

mc: oh. um. i mean i dont think that would count as—

grandma: she prefers a woman with.. experience, dear. you’ll understand when youre older

elf: gods youre so hot when you condescend to young people

assigned baby at birth

Abilities like that are a fourth quadrant, almost (splitting on free/costly and chancy/certain), being free (costing only that you can only try the ability once) but chancy,

The system doesn't generate a way for a character to be especially knowledgeable or observant. Admittedly, l/h/s doesn't cover that either; an elf with an ability to detect nearby secret doors x-in-6 gets that info passively (like a landmark), but only sometimes (like a secret)

I like the level requirement thing. It gives a way players can feel like they're playing a skillful and knowledgeable character where the mechanics back that up

So, stuff a character just knows is all either Common (for the character's backgrounds) or stuff they've picked up from an adventure? the mechanics here don't support any other ways a character might already just know something that the player has to be told