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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8791760" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Incorrect. There is no statblock labeled "Dragon". There are statblocks that use the word dragon, but none just called "Dragon" CR does matter? If you use this ability on a Chasme, and you learn it is resistant to fire, cold, lighting and immune to poison. Then later you are fighting a Balor, which is a stronger and more powerful demon, and literally on fire, then you can easily assume that Fire, Poison are immune and cold and lightning might still just be resistant, because it is a demon, just like that other demon. Also, the higher the CR, the higher level you are, and the less and less non-magical weapons matter. So the only differences between the Chasme and the Balor can be inferred trivially. It doesn't lead to a tactical change unless you have magical weapons that are weaker than your non-magical weapons. In every other possible scenario, there is no tactical change. So the information is largely worthless. If I have a longsword +1 and a Longsword, I'll be using the Longsword +1 against enemies with and without resistance to non-magical weapons, because as the stronger weapon, I'm just using it as my default weapon. And yet, they do, because the players are immediately told a number attached to the armor. It is freely available information that they have 100% access to. No one is ever going to say that a player has NO WAY of knowing that a person holding a shield is more difficult to hit than a person without it. No one is ever going to say that a player has NO WAY of knowing that someone wearing chainmail is less protected than someone wearing plate armor. So, why are you trying to say that there is NO WAY that they could use magic to confirm AC? Completely missing the point. Because we do know when we hit. Otherwise we couldn't activate abilities on a hit. The Paladin knows when they have hit the enemy, because they can only use Divine Smite when they hit the enemy. Whatever narrative you want to force around that is fine, but it doesn't change what is known.</blockquote>

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