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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 9322191" data-attributes="member: 6915329">You replied in the wrong thread, so I'm switching back to this one.Sure. In a setting with almost no monsters, you'd have a case--although I find it hard to believe that there wouldn't be any scholars or other groups of adventurers, storytellers who go around telling tales of great heroes who fought terrible beasts, ancient tomes from a more knowledgeable time, or your setting's version of the Van Richten Guides, any of which would justify a PC getting to roll Arcana. I mean, in my upcoming campaign setting, which is vaguely Victorian in level, probably most monsters have been driven to extinction, but there's still libraries and museums where you can find information about them. There's whole exhibits with stuffed manticores and harpies and other such creatures.But you realize that in most D&amp;D settings, monsters may be rare, but not so vanishingly rare that nobody believes in them. And in D&amp;D's default setting concept, monsters aren't actually all that rare.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 9322191, member: 6915329"] You replied in the wrong thread, so I'm switching back to this one. Sure. In a setting with almost no monsters, you'd have a case--although I find it hard to believe that there wouldn't be any scholars or other groups of adventurers, storytellers who go around telling tales of great heroes who fought terrible beasts, ancient tomes from a more knowledgeable time, or your setting's version of the Van Richten Guides, any of which would justify a PC getting to roll Arcana. I mean, in my upcoming campaign setting, which is vaguely Victorian in level, probably [I]most[/I] monsters have been driven to extinction, but there's still libraries and museums where you can find information about them. There's whole exhibits with stuffed manticores and harpies and other such creatures. But you realize that in most D&D settings, monsters may be [I]rare[/I], but not so vanishingly rare that nobody believes in them. And in D&D's default setting concept, monsters aren't actually all that rare. [/QUOTE]

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