Knowledge skills for Mythology

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by whswhs

Literature seems to be the skill of literary history, on one hand, and of determining the meanings of texts, on the other. Connoisseur (Literature) seems to be a cultivated taste for the qualities of literary works, just as Connoisseur (Wine) is a cultivated taste for wines. I don't think either is a subset of the other.

I was mostly trying to suss out the difference between Connoisseur as an Easy skill and Literature as a hard one. IMO, if you've got Literature skill, you don't need Connoisseur (Literature), just like if you have Expert Skill (Enology) you don't need Connoisseur (Wine).

Due to the "great interlocking fandom" with overlap between horror, SF, fantasy, and gaming fans, I used the term "imaginative fiction" to describe a broader sort of connoisseurship than just Connoisseur (Comic Books, Horror, SF, or Fantasy Literature). I'd still allow more specialized versions of Connoisseur, however, which trade depth of knowledge of breadth.

For example, authors like Terry Pratchett & George R. R. Martin started off as (or at least had some experience as) roleplaying gamers, but obviously draw from tropes as different as Hammer Studios horror films and Italian Renaissance politics in their works.