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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5305861" data-attributes="member: 4937">Like you, I use alot of custom monsters and change alot of the color of monsters that I do use.Personally, I think you are over thinking this.  A table of 'known facts' would be useful but given that I'm mainly wanting to move story along and that I invent monsters for almost every session this seems to me a poor time investment.For me, minimum success identifies the monster and its general class of creature.  After that I try to give information that is actually useful and not completely obvious.  1) This is an Ankheg, a form of dangerous predatory magical beast.2) Ankhegs can rapidly burrow through the ground.3) They are capable of spitting highly corrosive acid.4) They have extremely sharp senses and can detect prey with vibrations.5) They can see in complete darkness.6) Ankhegs are good climbers.7) Ankheg perfer warm habitats with soft soils.8) Ankhegs are usually solitary but 2-4 members of the same clutch may remain in the same area together into adulthood if sufficient food exists to prevent conflict for resources.  9) The range of an ankheg's spit attack is 30'.10) Ankheg's can only spit once every six hours.  At this level and beyond, assume that the player knows everything about Ankheg's you'd expect an biology student to know about the lifestyle of a particular animal and just give them whatever common knowledge that they ask for.  That almost certainly means anything in the SRD, with the exception that I don't generally like giving out actual meta information like bonuses to hit or AC.11+ This level and above represents knowledge of scholarly lore about Ankheg's that only highly educated specialists would probably have.  It would be things like, 'Derivatives of Anhkeg Spit is used in the ink necessary to scribe stinking cloud scrolls." or "Ankheg's enter their least active phase shortly after sunrise, and will generally not pursue prey very far between 6am and 9am except when extremely hungry."</blockquote>

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