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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Petrosian" data-source="post: 760154" data-attributes="member: 1149">Likewise, the opposite of "many time you will not know" is not "assuming that all traits/weaknesses of all monsters are known." Why are werwwolves always trouted out as the examples of the good the designer-dr is supposed to do? because EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE ***KNOWS*** that werewolves are supposed to need silver to kill them.But, as soon as you start pointing out that people will carry silver weapons, suddenly, amazingly, wonderfully, the fact that silver weapons are needed to kill werewolves is suddenly a state secret, one thats only available to your characrers in horrible games where GMS assume **ALL** traits/weaknesses of **ALL** monsters are known (usually followed by oh gosh what a silly way to run a game rolleyes thingy.)No one is saying that ALL traits and weaknesses of ALL monsters is known or that ALL that info is 100% accurate. But if mosteverybody agrees werewolves need special weapons to kill and the experienced guys training me back this up and one merchant says its silver weapons and the other merchant says its wooden weapons that means i will buy BOTH for my golf bag not neither.As for accurate info, dont you think that after several hundred years of devoting itself to killing undead and devils and demons, the temple of say cuthbert (and the other good aligned temples who give away holy water at cost) would have figured out, written down and maybe even passed on to their trained warrior-priests things like "holy water hurts undead" or "it takes magic weapons to hurt a shadow" and so on?I mean, if no one passes on the knowledge that certain things hurt certain beasties, then what are churches telling the people to give them 4lb of silver for? Are they conning them into believing that holy water removes stains well? Does washing your tunic in holy water make it come out brighter and hold color longer?Or is the church spreading the info that holy water will help against certain of these nasties?Now, if you accept that this knowledge and the tools to use it are indeed being dispensed by organizations like these (in the specific case of holy water) why then wouldn't the same thing at least in part be being done with werewolves (a silver dagger weighs less than the 5 lb needed for each vial of holy water), fey (cold iron? more or less expensive than 5 lb of silver?) stakes made of ashewood, blessed crossbows bolts, and so on and so on and so on?Answer... because if the mundane materials are made as easy to get as magic weapons are then the new designer-dr will fail just as much as the magic based one did.</blockquote>

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