Decipher Writing

Concentrate

Exploration

Secret

Critical Success You understand the true meaning of the text.

Success You understand the true meaning of the text. If it was a coded document, you know the general meaning but might not have a word-for-word translation.

Failure You can't understand the text and take a –2 circumstance penalty to further checks to decipher it.

Critical Failure You believe you understand the text on that page, but you have in fact misconstrued its message.

Trained entry-level philosophy treatise

Expert complex code, such as a cipher

Master spymaster’s code or advanced research notes