INFUSED KNOWLEDGE
Tier:
3
Prerequisite:
Intelligence 40, Lore (any one)
Aptitudes:
Intelligence, Knowledge
The Acolyte has been imbued with a great breadth of lore, either through punishing noetic techniques or by arcane methods kept secret by the guardians of technology and learning. He counts as having all Common Lore and Scholastic Lore skills at rank 1 (Known)—basically he knows something about everything. If he wishes to later improve his Lore skills, these advances must be bought using experience points (from rank 1) as normal. He also adds one degree of success to any successful Common or Scholastic Lore tests, due to his ingrained training.
This talent seems... very strong. However, I don't actually know if it's broken -- it gives you access to all the Knowledge skills that may not be useful in most circumstances, mitigating the massive XP sink that Lore skills normally represent.
What do you guys think? Personally I'd be inclined to allow it, but it might be wise to remove the bit about adding one DoS to all CL and SL tests. Counting all CL and SL skills as Known is a strong benefit already, one that IMO is easily worth the 400xp required for a Tier 3 talent.