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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sd_jasper" data-source="post: 7577619" data-attributes="member: 6888436">I'm going to chime in here with what I think this whole discussion on monster knowledge boils down to: Is it part of the game? What I mean by this is, does monster knowledge matter to the players and GM?Let's say I'm playing a game with a "scholar" class or character type. My character's strength is the things that he knows. If any player can just declare that they know everything about monster X, then my characters role in the groups is greatly diminished or even made totally unnecessary. Even if I were not a scholar, but my character had invested in knowledge skills (over other abilities), then again I could be "playing the game wrong" if the GM was willing to just give out the info my character should have unique access too, to any PC.Or if I were a GM and expected the players to invest in such skills/abilities, and that discovering a monsters weakness to play a major part of the game's combat... then I sure wouldn't allow players to simply declare that they know all about whatever monster.On the other hand, if there is no expectation of discovering this sort of information... if the game is just about killing the monsters, not figuring out how to, then it would be fine to let the players make decorations of "uncle told me...". Better yet, it should be assumed that the characters know, and needs no justifying statements.As an aside: Monster knowledge does matter in my games, and if PCs start charging a troll with fire w/o making a monster identification check, they may just end up running into Trolls that are healed by fire.</blockquote>

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