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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7462168" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>Oh, go right ahead and be misleading... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p> Ideally, you shouldn't let players ask to make rolls, they should describe actions ("Do I remember seeing or hearing about a creature like that from my time with the Rangers of the North..." could be an 'action' in the sense you're trying to match the description to your own knowledge & experience) and you call for checks based on the action and the circumstances (which you, as DM necessarily know more about than the players).</p><p></p><p>You might have a few possible creatures that could fit the description already picked out, and, for no check or a poor one, present them as possibilities. With a good check you could explain that the character eliminated one or more possiblity because of habbitat or behavior or whatever - going into as much detail as you think might be interesting.</p><p></p><p> What were they /doing/ there? If they weren't actually working any magic nothing more might be appropriate, if they'd just come back from the feywild, maybe some lingering Conjuration... </p><p></p><p> I'd think zombies would appear to have been dead longer than the other corpses, and show a lot of post-mortem wounds. So there was a battle here between living troops and zombies is a reasonable supposition. And, that Detect Magic should pick up lingering Necromancy. </p><p></p><p>Of course, I suppose one could conclude that there had been a battle between ogres and elves, and, some time later, a third force had come along and mutilated the corpses....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7462168, member: 996"] Oh, go right ahead and be misleading... ;) Ideally, you shouldn't let players ask to make rolls, they should describe actions ("Do I remember seeing or hearing about a creature like that from my time with the Rangers of the North..." could be an 'action' in the sense you're trying to match the description to your own knowledge & experience) and you call for checks based on the action and the circumstances (which you, as DM necessarily know more about than the players). You might have a few possible creatures that could fit the description already picked out, and, for no check or a poor one, present them as possibilities. With a good check you could explain that the character eliminated one or more possiblity because of habbitat or behavior or whatever - going into as much detail as you think might be interesting. What were they /doing/ there? If they weren't actually working any magic nothing more might be appropriate, if they'd just come back from the feywild, maybe some lingering Conjuration... I'd think zombies would appear to have been dead longer than the other corpses, and show a lot of post-mortem wounds. So there was a battle here between living troops and zombies is a reasonable supposition. And, that Detect Magic should pick up lingering Necromancy. Of course, I suppose one could conclude that there had been a battle between ogres and elves, and, some time later, a third force had come along and mutilated the corpses.... [/QUOTE]
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