[DF] Difference between Hidden Lore and Occultisme?

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by malloyd

Personally I don't care for Hidden Lore at all, since it's core definition isn't what the skill covers, but the incidental fact that in this particular world this information is Hidden. What about a setting where it's openly taught?

Then it wouldn't be useful for that game. We know that not every skill is going to exist in every setting, but Hidden Lore seems to fit a not uncommon literary convention, where some useful information is assumed to be buried deeper than most people will bother to dig. I suppose that you could represent it another way, with whatever other skill matched the HL specialty and an attached Unusual Background.