Bear Lore

[WalterKovacs]

In my game two weeks ago we had the opasite happen, although almost as funny

Player 1: Oh **** that is a Mind Flyaer
Player 2: a what?
Player 1: dude...they eat brains by pulling them out with those tenicles, they have minds blasts that stun, and they use to be bad *** wizards...
DM: Um I think I want a monster lore to justify all that...
Player 1: What skill
DM: Dungenering
Player 1: I don't have that can i use streetwise...
DM: No roll untrianed
Player 1: (Rolls 3 + 1/2level 6 + Int mod 0= total 9)
Player 2:Hey I have dunfenerring trained...(Rolls 19)
DM: OK your reactions...reverse them...

My favorite thing about that was that the wizard (or similar "knowledge guy") would ussually have arcana, religion, planes, etc ... however they would almost never have local. So while they can immediately name and list off weaknesses of a strange abomination ... they may not be able to identify humanoids.