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<blockquote data-quote="Kinak" data-source="post: 6111687" data-attributes="member: 6694112">The answer is &quot;your character knows whatever your DM says.&quot;That said, I personally haven't been at a table that plays as though the characters have read the rulebooks. Nor would I suggest we start, unless we were playing a game set in the <a href="http://www.giantitp.com/" target="_blank">Order of the Stick</a> world.As a Pathfinder DM, I assume class names are used in world as the dictionary suggests, not mechanically. So people are called &quot;warriors&quot; all the time, but it doesn't mean they have levels of the NPC class. And the &quot;barbarians of the North&quot; don't all have the rage class feature. A &quot;summoner&quot; could be anyone with summoning magics. And so on and so on.If a player needed to know something about a specific character or deity or whatever, they can make the appropriate knowledge check. I'd cheerfully explain to anyone with a rank of Knowledge (Arcana) that magic can be inherited, granted by a mysterious power, or learned. But, even then, I wouldn't mention the class names, because they don't mean anything special in world.Cheers!Kinak</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kinak, post: 6111687, member: 6694112"] The answer is "your character knows whatever your DM says." That said, I personally haven't been at a table that plays as though the characters have read the rulebooks. Nor would I suggest we start, unless we were playing a game set in the [URL="http://www.giantitp.com/"]Order of the Stick[/URL] world. As a Pathfinder DM, I assume class names are used in world as the dictionary suggests, not mechanically. So people are called "warriors" all the time, but it doesn't mean they have levels of the NPC class. And the "barbarians of the North" don't all have the rage class feature. A "summoner" could be anyone with summoning magics. And so on and so on. If a player needed to know something about a specific character or deity or whatever, they can make the appropriate knowledge check. I'd cheerfully explain to anyone with a rank of Knowledge (Arcana) that magic can be inherited, granted by a mysterious power, or learned. But, even then, I wouldn't mention the class names, because they don't mean anything special in world. Cheers! Kinak [/QUOTE]

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