Comment on “Tactics”

Alexis I may have asked you before but I can't remember: what are the methods, other than "a bonus from the background generator", of one class accessing a knowledge field from another class?

It's slipped my mind: are you currently for or against non-class-specific knowledge fields selectable by any player?

What's the interplay between NPCs and sage skills? While it's silly to assume that anyone with knowledge of X field is automatically a class with access to X (NPCs don't need to follow PC rules), there are some cases I can think of (such as Alchemy) where using the Amateur/Authority/etc. divisions and abilities thereof would make sense to be easily ransferable to NPCs. Then it's just "well if you want XYZ and nobody in the party can do it you'll need a sage with X points" which could with some work be stuffed into the econ ssytem, the way you stuff in certain levels of cleric for spellcasting services.

Apologies for typos, in rush and want to get the ideas out.