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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5302565" data-attributes="member: 71571">Without having the 4e campaign at hand, I can remark that Religion would have been a -very- useful skill in the 2e campaign.Never mind the sorcerer kings and the religious hierarchies that are necessary to deal with simply for every day life in any city, you also have the elemental clergies, druids of the land, and all manner of elemental phenomena that are religious in nature.Above that, the undead were different in the Athas of old... you had skeletons, zombies... and then the rest were unique intellegent undead, where each one had their own stories and motivations.  A knowledge check pertaining to undead might not just tell you 'That's a banshee!' but would tell you 'That is Krolmad the Thrice-Burned.  A dwarven navigator, he made it his focus to lead his nomad tribe to oasis.  Niben-nay, however, was displeased with him and his followers... many ex-slaves, and so tasked his minions with the utter destuction of every oasis with fire and ash.  His people dying of thirst, his focus broken, he is now cursed to wander the Dry Flats for eternity, slaying all travellers for their waterskins so he can give futile succor to his small retinue of skeletal dwarves.'</blockquote>