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Message: <blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7584223" data-attributes="member: 6919838">To me, this is where the 5e rule for failure - "some progress with setback" is goldmine.Almost every failed knowledge check in my game has gotten some good info and some bad info that were either indistinguishable or maybe even the bad info seemed more plausible or more useful. but since the character also gets some narrative hooks for "confidence" (was it common knowledge at the academy, proven and documented multiple times over, did it only appear in that one wizard's toimes that kept his records mostly focused on the mating proclivities of young bugbears or did you overhear a drunken dwarf in a bar trying to impress some barmaid?") they can act on the information or not as they see fit.</blockquote>