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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 6406808" data-attributes="member: 13703">In our 3.5E campaigns I made extensive use of them as a DM and as a player.  I found it was a good way to reward players who invested in Knowledge skills and a way to get some campaign fluff, background history and plot info into the game (which can sometimes be a challenge).I didn’t really follow the hard guidelines for the skill checks, but used them as a rough guide.  Generally, the higher the skill check result, the more information you got.  Lower CR creatures were easier to find out information from than high CR creatures (i.e. a result of 20 on a skill check roll would get you more information about a Lizardman than it would about a Beholder).Typical information would be combat stats, special abilities, resistances, higher or low AC or hit points, which saves are better or worse, is it normal for such a creature to be found in such an environment or location, are they solitary or pack creatures.  The information wouldn’t generally be specific.  So I’d say something like, “it can take a lot of hits, but should be easy to hit” rather than, “it has 143 hit points, but is only AC 17”.I haven’t read through 5E yet to know how they handle something like this, but I hope there is some mechanism for it.</blockquote>