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For the two linked skills, if you fail a recall knowledge check with your first skill you get to retry with the linked skill. However, does this skill have to be relevant to the target of the recall knowledge?

For example, if Religion and Arcana are linked, and you do a Religion check against a skeleton and fail, and retry with Arcana, does it instantly fail since Arcana doesn't apply to skeletons? Or does it still work for Religion but use your Arcana skill roll?

My GM said his interpretation was that it would use Arcana vs the skeleton and fail instantly, which I can see based on how it's worded. Though if that's the case it would make this a very weak and extremely situational skill feat since you'd need to pick two skills that just happened to be the two skills used by the creature you're fighting.

Am I missing something somewhere or are there no rules covering how to appraise items, specifically gems and art.

I feel like identifying magic items works well enough as an appraisal for magic items since the player would understand its power and therefore have a position to bargain from.

However, if the players find gems or art, and run across an unscrupulous merchant who tries to cheat them, what recourse would players have aside from opposing deception?

This is also relevant if coming across stone or similarly heavy artwork in a dungeon where bulk is an issue and the party needs to determine value in order to decide what they should take vs. leave behind

I've seen a couple of homebrew rules but find it hard to believe there aren't any official rules covering this.

This might be in the weeds, but our group is wondering why there seems to be a discrepancy in horse carry load/STR values.

Specifically, Table 7-9: Mounts and Vehicles, states that a Light horse with a load of 175-525 lbs. and a Heavy Horse with a load of 229-690 lbs. move 1/3 slower (40 miles per day vs 28 miles per day with the load).

This seems to imply that the weight range listed is the medium load for those horses.

And based on Table 7-4: Carrying Capacity, we can reverse engineer their STR with a light horse seemingly having a STR of 14 (174/3 = 58) and a heavy horse having a STR of 16 (228/3 = 76).

However, the stats for these horses would seem to imply otherwise. With a light horse having a STR of 16 and a heavy horse having a STR of 20.
Light Horse, Heavy Horse

Am I missing something? Are there multiple types of light horses and heavy horses? Or is table 7-9 based on incorrect STR values for the horses?