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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 6248582" data-attributes="member: 6701124">If its something most people have never heard of or is only considered a distant legend then its a 15+CR then she only gets two or three bits of information on average, right?    Maybe you could roll randomly from all of the special attacks, defenses, and movements to see which one she remembers?  (Big difference between remembering the medusa's hair is snakes, and remembering the turn to stone if she only gets one.)   Maybe have her remember false things on a one?  (So one out of every 20 combats anyway).There are a couple of things you could do once in a while to add that mystery back in: if its a swift action for each check have groups of different kinds of monsters, monsters with five or six interesting features, monsters from the skill she is least adept at (unless she's maxed out all five), big bad guy figures out what she's doing and has the creatures covered by illusion or disguise so she identifies the wrong thing, bad lighting, look alike creatures (like the sahuagin variant that looks like a sea-elf), and magically created creatures that are unknown to anyone but their creator.  With a 22 Int (at level 6?!) is there some attribute she's massively neglected that could be exploited?  Of course you can't do any one of those too often without penalizing her for knowing the rules. </blockquote>