When making decisions for which skill to apply to an on-the-fly knowledge check, I have some difficulties coming up with which skill rolls to ask my players for.
It seems strange to me that there is Arcane power, Divine power, Psionic power, etc... relating to magical powers and the like, but when making a magic-related skill check, there is only Arcana?
Also I know that each monster's type relates to which skill the PCs need to role in order to discover information about it, but have yet to find a good table/chart describing this and the type of information that is provided on which DCs.
Then I come to the part of 4E that suggests, "if the PCs need to know the information, give it to them." Why even have them make a knowledge check then? But if its information that they don't entirely need, its only thematic in essence, and therefore it should just be given to them also?
Let me know what you think, I want to pick your brain.
It seems strange to me that there is Arcane power, Divine power, Psionic power, etc... relating to magical powers and the like, but when making a magic-related skill check, there is only Arcana?
Also I know that each monster's type relates to which skill the PCs need to role in order to discover information about it, but have yet to find a good table/chart describing this and the type of information that is provided on which DCs.
Then I come to the part of 4E that suggests, "if the PCs need to know the information, give it to them." Why even have them make a knowledge check then? But if its information that they don't entirely need, its only thematic in essence, and therefore it should just be given to them also?
Let me know what you think, I want to pick your brain.