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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EOL" data-source="post: 73779" data-attributes="member: 823">I'm thinking of introducing this into my campaign as a way for Players to accurately know how much their characters would know about some new beast they've encountered.  I'm interested in feedback especially on the multipliers.--------------------------Knowledge (Fantastic Beasts) (Int; Trained Only)Description: This Skill allows characters to check to see if they know a monsters special abilities, strength's and weaknesses.Check: The DC for this check is based on the CR of the monster plus a commonality modifier times a multipler based on the creatures type.  The commonality modifier ranges from -5 to +5 with -5 being very common and +5 being very rare.  Use the following table for the type multipliers:Humanoids- x1 Monsterous Humanoids- x2 Giants- X1.5 Fey- x2 Animal- x0.5 Dire Animals- x1 Beasts- x1.5 Magical Beasts- x2 Shapechanger- x3 Construct- x2 Aberrations- x3 Undead- x2 Elemental- x2 Outsider- x3 Dragon- x1.5 Vermin- x1.5 Templated Creatures- add (x1) to base type So for example if the character wanted to see what he knew about a Roper the DC would probably work out like this (CR-10 + 4 (really rare)) x2 Magical Beast = DC 28 so a mage (int of at least 20) of that level who had maxed his Knowledge skill would have just over a 50% chance of making it.This is mostly useful for creatures the character has never encountered once they've fought something they probably have a pretty good idea of what it can do.Retry: No. The check represents what the character knows, and thinking about a topic a second time doesn't let the character know something the character never learned in the first place.</blockquote>

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