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Forked from: Knowledge skills in combat
Has anyone noticed that monster knowledge skills are very good now? My PCs know every resistance, power, weakness, name, type, and keyword of approximately 95% of every encounter they come across. Is this intended? If so, why even bother with things like DM screens?
Furthermore, when you learn an enemy's "powers", does that mean you know all of their at-will & encounter powers, or do you get the entire list? If the rest of them aren't powers, what are they? Features?
Anyone else getting tripped up by these rules?
MeMeMeMe said:As has already been mentioned, this is answered on pg 180 of the PHB.
It's "No Action" - you get one roll, you either know it or you don't.
I allow players to roll whenever a creature is mentioned, or encountered.
So, if the oplayers are hired to clean out a kobold lair, they would roll immediately to find out how much they know about kobolds.
Then in that lair, when they encounter a Guard Drake, they roll to see if they know what it is and and how much they know about it.
Has anyone noticed that monster knowledge skills are very good now? My PCs know every resistance, power, weakness, name, type, and keyword of approximately 95% of every encounter they come across. Is this intended? If so, why even bother with things like DM screens?
Furthermore, when you learn an enemy's "powers", does that mean you know all of their at-will & encounter powers, or do you get the entire list? If the rest of them aren't powers, what are they? Features?
Anyone else getting tripped up by these rules?