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<blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 2771478" data-attributes="member: 4910">Certain courses of action naturally suggest themselves.&nbsp; If a snakeman spits a blinding, burning venom into your eyes, your natural reaction would be to try to get the bad crap out of your eyes.&nbsp; No check should be required for this.However, if you're fighting an opponent that has a corrosive slime that sticks to you with each blow, and has an odd method of negation - such as, say, salt negating the goo, but water or alcohol having no effect on it - then I'd require an appropriate knowledge check.&nbsp; Think of it like peeing on jellyfish stings.&nbsp; A person's normal reaction to being stung by something isn't to have your buddy take a leak on you.&nbsp; A successful Knowledge (Nature) check, however, tells you otherwise.On the whole, as a DM, I'd make these knowledge checks in secret and if someone in the party is successful, tell them &quot;Bill, you're pretty sure you've heard of this stuff before.&nbsp; If you remember correctly, you need to do so-and-so in order to take care of the such-and-such&quot;.&nbsp; If none of them make the check, then I say nothing and let them try to figure it out on their own.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sejs, post: 2771478, member: 4910"] Certain courses of action naturally suggest themselves. If a snakeman spits a blinding, burning venom into your eyes, your natural reaction would be to try to get the bad crap out of your eyes. No check should be required for this. However, if you're fighting an opponent that has a corrosive slime that sticks to you with each blow, and has an odd method of negation - such as, say, salt negating the goo, but water or alcohol having no effect on it - then I'd require an appropriate knowledge check. Think of it like peeing on jellyfish stings. A person's normal reaction to being stung by something isn't to have your buddy take a leak on you. A successful Knowledge (Nature) check, however, tells you otherwise. On the whole, as a DM, I'd make these knowledge checks in secret and if someone in the party is successful, tell them "Bill, you're pretty sure you've heard of this stuff before. If you remember correctly, you need to do so-and-so in order to take care of the such-and-such". If none of them make the check, then I say nothing and let them try to figure it out on their own. [/QUOTE]

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