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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bryan898" data-source="post: 2807798" data-attributes="member: 9085">I always used the knowledge check for monsters as learning information about a monster you've never encountered or had heard about.  If my character has fought a troll and had to deal with it's regeneration, he shouldn't have to make a Knowledge check to determine if a troll has regeneration.  If Joe Blow the Fighter level 2- with a knowledge (arcane) +2 gets told by Elmunster- with a knowledge (arcane) +40, that great wyrm red dragons are immune to most physical attacks, he now knows this, even if he couldn't make the check.The people in laketown knew Smaug's abilities because they had witnessed them firsthand.  They didn't need to make a knowledge check to know something they previously had not, they probably were only aware of Smaug's ability to breathe fire before he attacked the village.People know about Red Dragon's breathing fire because a red dragon is a terrifying creature that people tell stories of encounters with in the bar.  It then is passed by word of mouth, and though some parts of the tale are mucked up in translation the basics of it are still passed- big red scaly winged creatures breath fire.  And if they ever run into a red scaled wyvern, they'd probably expect it to breath fire, because as all adventurers know- commoners as a whole are stupid and only good for selling phat lewt too at outrageous prices.  (It's a knowledge check DC 20 to know that commoners are stupid because of flaws in the system)</blockquote>

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