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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhianni32" data-source="post: 7833596" data-attributes="member: 68272">CapnZapp made a post about the issues with Recall Knowledge in the GM experience thread and suggested there be a separate discussion.While he can speak for himself, I agree with his points that the Recall Knowledge action and use is pretty light on the rules where as most other parts of the rule set are pretty specific.<a href="https://2e.aonprd.com/Skills.aspx?ID=5&General=true" target="_blank">Recall Knowledge</a>. (Core Rulebook page 239)For 1 action, the GM makes the roll in secret and you get...Critical Success You recall the knowledge accurately and gain additional information or context.Success You recall the knowledge accurately or gain a useful clue about your current situation.Critical Failure You recall incorrect information or gain an erroneous or misleading clue.Core Rulebook page 505 has more info on using it to identify a monsterSuccess: Learn a troll has regeneration and its stopped by acid or fire. Or a manticore's tail spikes (lets be honest probably will fire off in the first round and the PC will figure it out anyways).Critical Success: Demon's Weakness or the trigger for a creature's ability.Which skill to use is additional complexity.Page 505 has an example of identifying a Hag. The Hag type creature is an Occult skill, but they are humanoid so Society would work, but at a harder DC. If you use a Lore skill its easy or very easy. Great example but it would be better to just give us the rules!Is the 1 action cost in encounter mode good or bad?Lastly there was discussion of  the 50% success rate being too low for players to be using an action.Presuming you are trained in a skill with a 16 in your skill's ability at 1st level you'll have +6. to beat a DC 15. 60% chance of failure so 50% is about right if its more of a boss monster a couple levels higher which you'd consider using an action on vs scrub minion monsters.</blockquote>

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