I would suggest that the Rogue also have Knowledge Nobility as a trained skill as opposed to a cross-trained skill. My reasoning is this: Rogues know their mark(s) and/or know who not to mark when plying their their trade. A rogue seems to know more about a family and the colors worn, jewelry worn, heirlooms... Thanks and great job!
I would give the rogue also the following class ability:
Streetwise: You can always make a level check to gather information about local thieves activities, like the whereabouts of black markets, the main thief guilds, their "businesses" or the names of their leaders and lieutenents.
I would give the rogue also the following class ability:
Streetwise: You can always make a level check to gather information about local thieves activities, like the whereabouts of black markets, the main thief guilds, their "businesses" or the names of their leaders and lieutenents.
Shoot, we used to always combine Knowledge (local) and Gather Information together as "Streetwise." Black markets played an important part in our homebrew campaigns, as did recognition of criminal NPCs (ever since I read Fritz Leiber's "The Cloud of Hate").
I would suggest that the Rogue also have Knowledge Nobility as a trained skill as opposed to a cross-trained skill. My reasoning is this: Rogues know their mark(s) and/or know who not to mark when plying their trade. A rogue seems to know more about a family and the colors worn, jewelry worn, heirlooms... Thanks and great job!
I disagree. Knowledge (nobility) is interpreted as a lot more than just recognizing a noble and what family he or she might belong to according to their possessions...
Knowledge (nobility) is meant to incorporate proper upper-class etiquette skills, questions of lineage, and politics...so it's a lot less applicable to rogues than most other classes. In addition, cross-class access is still available. So it's not like they're prevented from having it. And, if you're a human (a race than has a lot more significant class of nobles than most other races), you can always use your bonus skill to make Knowledge (nobility) a class skill for your rogue, if necessary.
My two-cents,
--Neil